Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready to be "inducted" this week as flagship of the Coast Guard's Corsair Fleet was the sturdy, full-rigged Gertrude L. Thebaud, most famed of U.S. fishing schooners. Built to sail in weather that would blow the paint off her, the Gertrude L. Thebaud met Nova Scotia's older, bigger Bluenose in three salt-sprayed races, won once, lost twice. In her day she has brought back many a load of cod and halibut. Now, with her white hull painted drab grey, she will patrol the Atlantic Coast listening for lurking subs...
...Germans on the docks watched while some ships which did not blow up immediately were raked with gunfire from other vessels. They saw some which had slipped their moorings make for the harbor entrance; at least one blew up there on the German mines.* In the glare of explosions and searchlights the Germans saw the French masters, at rigid attention on their bridges, saluting the Tricolor as they went down...
...June, when the Solomons were finally chosen for the big blow, "we didn't have the resources." But: "We set a date for it to begin. That date was Aug. 1, and they actually got started...
Franco had the best of reasons for keeping Spain out of the war. If either the Axis or the Allies moved into Spain, the lid would blow off. It is not clear who would then come out on top, but it seems highly probable that Dictator Franco would land on his bottom...
...blow fell last week on that crusty, conservative Briton-of-Britons, Secretary for India Leopold Amery. Over the Berlin radio came the announcement that his son John would speak to Britain. The blow might have been softened by the fact that the German Government disclaimed responsibility for John's words. But the voice that followed read typical canned Nazi propaganda. Excerpts...