Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Kurt Carlsen, a 1952 hero for sticking to the last on the sinking Flying Enterprise II, bobbed up in the news again. His new Flying Enterprise smacked its 8,000 tons into the 7,000-ton British freighter Canara while tugs were nudging her toward a berth in Bombay Harbor, India. Damage to the Canara was "extensive," but the Enterprise came off with a mere five-foot gash above the water line. "I feel heartbroken," moaned Carlsen. "If there's one man in the world who does not want anything to happen to the Flying Enterprise...
INVESTIGATIONS Joe's Bloody Nose Like most successful rough & tumble fighters. Senator Joe McCarthy always presses in, and is adept at forensic kneeing, gouging and butting. As a consequence, most of his senatorial colleagues give him a wide berth. But last week, when he set out to defend J. B. Matthews, executive staff director of his subcommittee, McCarthy finally gave his critics in both parties a wide and irresistible opening. They jumped him en masse, and Fighting Joe did not get up from among the cuspidors until he had the legislative equivalents of a split lip, a bloody nose...
...impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last words, growled out as she collapsed: "I won't be any properer than I've a mind to be. Let me sleep...
Lord won his end berth and Kelly started at quarter as the Crimson smashed weak Vermont 21 to 3. Crosby scored two touchdowns and was the team's leading ground gainer. Dudley Bell and Captain Pratt recovered inopportune Vermont fumbles and the varsity seemed headed in the right direction...
...piling up travel stories. About half of them were in the West for the first time; a good 80% spent hours snapping scenery with their cameras. In El Paso, enthusiastic Texans draped Conductor Monteux in a Mexican serape; in Tucson, a vigilante committee routed Conductor Munch out of his berth and-with assurances that it was the greatest prize within their gift- led him to a tree. slung a rope around his neck and treated him to an honorary hanging...