Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark and Tuttle in Anchor Positions...
Leading off for Mikkola in the mile relay will be Hugh de Fries, who recently copped the 600 at Tufts. He will be followed by F. S. Steinbauer, Cliff Wharton in the number three spot, and finally Bob Clark, running the anchor leg for the Crimson...
...Sandy" Patch sent two columns into a pre-dawn assault without the usual artillery preparation, caught the Germans napping. In two days the Seventh's men had taken Haguenau, the enemy's anchor point along the Rhine, 16 miles above Strasbourg. Beyond Haguenau was the 25-mile-wide Rhine plain. If Patch's northward thrust could be developed, the whole Saar Palatinate area would be outflanked...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, whose high-school playmates called him "Angles" because he knew all of them, figured a new one last week: his own music-publishing firm in Manhattan-an anchor to windward against the day when his bobby-soxed fans will be wearing garters...
...Harbor clacked monotonously on one of the Associated Press's San Francisco teletypes. Suddenly a side item from Pearl Harbor set another teletype going. Bureau Manager Harold Turnblad whistled in surprise as he read: "Powerful Allied naval forces have attacked a portion of the Japanese fleet lying at anchor near the entrance to Fusan Harbor on the southeast coast of Korea . . . 26 of approximately 80 ships . . . were set afire . . . more than 70 Japanese vessels, including warships and transports, were . . . sunk...