Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides. Last week, on the fifth try, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri heaved a metallic sigh and slipped off the Chesapeake Bay shoal where she had sat, unbudging, on her big broad bottom, for 15 days. The band played Anchor's Aweigh and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. In drydock, the damage proved slight. This week, haggard Captain William D. Brown, whose troubles were just beginning, would have to explain to a court of inquiry how, on his first trip as her commanding officer...
Nobody was more embarrassed by the House vote than the Senate Republicans, who had been blaming Acheson for doing too little too late. Their anchor man, California's hefty, well-tailored Bill Knowland, said tersely: "Korea will get its help at this session." Administration strategists decided to send through a new version of the Korean aid bill, and hoped to get it passed...
Douglas made it clear that he intended to run with no strings attached. That was all right with Ed. "We need an anchor man on the council," he explained, "someone who can inject some thought into it." What he really needed was someone who could win the labor, Negro and university-votes of the Fifth Ward, and pile up a big majority for Kelly for mayor as well...
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...only certain members of the relay team are Bob Berke and Captain Joe Fox, the anchor man. The other two positions will be filled by Bob Stroud or Mort Hull and Dave Stone or Lowell Sachnoff...