Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain, barnacles were four inches deep on her rusty hull. In the captain's quarters lounged "Captain" Chan Tze-ming; in the engine room "Chief Engineer" Wang Chi-fu reigned over nosy harbor rats and cold, dry engines. It was the Kwang Yuan's third year at anchor...
...CRIMSON Flotilla will up anchor for Wellesley "sometime within the next 96 hours," it was announced officially last night by the Commodore. In addition, it was disclosed that a full meeting of all undergraduates interested in joining the Charles River odyssey will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in the CRIMSON Building...
...respected. The Germans' ability to aim was proved by gaping holes in the little (800 ft.) town quay, where some 15,000 British and French troops had landed from small boats, from big transports (including the 21,833-ton Empress of Australia, see p. 25) that had to anchor out in the fjord...
...usual, had to get the lowdown by devious methods. Across Twelfth Avenue from Pier 90, in a waterfront joint called the Anchor, Queen Elizabeth's crew gradually spilled the beans. Whoever would talk got free drinks. Some of the men were reticent and asked not to be quoted. Senior Printer Pearce Jones not only consented to be quoted; he insisted. "I am protected," he said, "by the Typographical Society of Great Britain and Ireland." Greaser Tom Barber and Fireman Jim O'Brien and Engineer Peter Johnson were in fine form. Oiler Jack Sykes babbled in Cockney. Gradually...
...that, said the boys at the Anchor, was that. Why had she come? So as not to be bombed, of course. As for those docking charges the Nazis jeered about,* she would save almost $1,000,000 a year on insurance premiums by being out of the danger zone...