Word: bligh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's House of Lords conservative, aristocratic Esme Bligh, Ninth Earl of Darnley, rose to propose a motion: "that this house hereby affirm its belief that peace will only be established ... by the adoption of the Christian commands of neighborly conduct." Viscount Addison felt "some regret that the noble Earl was not able to make some more practical and effective suggestion. . . ." The League of Nation's roommate, aging, disillusioned Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, could not believe that such a resolution would "advance the cause of peace in the very slightest...
...Captain Bligh wished to shake hands with the one that "really" was responsible for pulling [the three Navy flyers] thru, I fear it would not be "Dixon." . . . "Aldrich" was not a gabby sort, in fact, he was, and is, very quiet. . . . Another thing, he never addressed or spoke of his father as his "old man." And I do not care for anyone else to address his father in that manner either. ... It was Aldrich, even tho a "lad" that provided the most of the food on that voyage. It was he who sighted the islet. . . . You see, I received...
Thirty-four days later, they had sailed and been blown 1,000 miles by one of the worst South Sea hurricanes in history. The man who pulled them through could shake hands with Captain Bligh.* Hawknosed Bomber Pilot Harold Dixon was a man that Bligh would fancy. Dixon was a hard guy from Oklahoma, who came up the hard way and never knew when he had enough...
...Captain William Bligh and 18 men, set adrift in a 23-foot boat by the mutinied crew of H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, navigated 3,600 miles of open seas to Timor, Dutch East Indies. But Bligh had a small supply of food, water, navigation instruments and a much more seaworthy craft...
...Most celebrated example: the Dumaru, which sank in an electrical storm in the Pacific. The crew of one of her lifeboats sailed 1,300 miles to the Philippine Islands, one of the longest open-boat trips since Captain Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in 1789. The starving survivors kept themselves alive by cannibalism. The menu: the chief engineer and a fireman-who (said the survivors) died of their own accord...