Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory in the mile relay was easily the day's thriller. Larry Corbett kept neck-and-neck with his opponent Riley, and in the second lap Ted Graves loped ahead by a large margin. McCarthy overtook Harvard's Lyons, and Dowd widened the lead over Crimson anchor man Tom Watkins...
...Narrows of New York Harbor one drizzly morning this week stood a hulking grey battleship. Convoyed by Coast Guard craft, she cast anchor at the Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...only did riders on the Staten Island ferry have a good look at her close up but the German consul had only to look out of his office building on Battery Place to see her riding at anchor. But many a U.S. newspaper reader heard nothing about it, for, after the Lend-Lease Act was passed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox appealed to the U.S. press not to report the movements of British vessels putting into U.S. ports...
...type. They hauled out foggy old pictures of the merchant U-boat Deutschland nosing into Baltimore harbor in July 1916, with its cargo of dyestuffs; remembered the story of the U-53, Lieut. Hans Rose commander, putting right into Newport, R. I. in October of the same year, dropping anchor smack alongside the U. S. submarine D-2 long enough for Lieut. Rose to go ashore and mail a letter to the German Ambassador in Washington; echoed the panic of May 1918, when two of the newest German submarines appeared off the U. S. coast and in a month sank...
Nice Girl? (Universal) abruptly halts the string of eight pleasant, sprightly tuneful Deanna Durbin films which have been the financial anchor of Universal Pictures Co. for the last four years. In it, grinning little Producer Joe Pasternak, who has nurtured Deanna like a prize petunia, has gone wildly askew with a somnolent essay on bourgeois life in a small New England town...