Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Powers, whose team finished in third place in the league race with four wins and two losses, will not only enter the 100-yard sprint and fight it out with Johnson and Captain Sanburn of Yale in the 220 but is also scheduled to swim anchor man in the 400-yard relay. His best race is the furlong in which he is undefeated this season...
...Stage. At almost the same moment The Netherlands East Indies and Australia got their wind up. From Batavia orders went out for Dutch ships to put into the nearest friendly port; two of them rushed to Manila and dropped anchor. In Australia Acting Prime Minister Arthur William Fadden called a meeting of the Advisory War Council and then issued a warning to the country: "The war has moved into a new stage of the utmost gravity...
...affairs exposed the marrow of British power. One summer evening at Abukir Bay, after a maddening two months' search in which his fleet had been without benefit of speedy frigates for scouting, Nelson with his 14 ships of the line came on the fleet of 15 Frenchmen at anchor. Moving down both sides of the badly arranged enemy, the British overcame one vessel at a time> Only two escaped. The French flagship Orient took fire and blew up-and with it died the flag captain's son, Giacomo Casabianca, whose willful refusal to get away with the crew...
...July 3. This brilliantly executed attack was led by Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, whose knowledge of naval traditions is indicated by the fact that his hobby is the highly technical one of making ship models, whose energy is indicated by the fact that whenever at anchor he rows around the ship four times before breakfast...
Besides constant raids on Italian bases in Albania and on cities on the Italian mainland, the Eastern Fleet's naval planes in November pulled off the most dramatic single episode of the whole battle: Taranto. Catching a strong body of the Italian Fleet asleep at anchor, the British severely damaged three capital ships and two cruisers-giving Britain conclusive naval superiority in the entire Mediterranean, and thereby paving the way for another vital duty in the East...