Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coventry. London, Manchester. Ow I wish I could come up with a Jerry plane. I would show them. Today my steward put my knife spoon and fork in bucket of water to wash then forgot they were there, chooked water overboard with them in it. I could of chooked im overboard...
Skipper Robinson gave orders to steer by her engines. But she was down by the bow, shipping water fast. Her choked pumps wouldn't drain her. Lining up a bucket brigade, her crew bailed her out like a rowboat, all night and all the next day and night, till she dragged on her belly into the port of Tjilatjap, Java...
Nightmare. The story of the fire sounded like a carefully told bad dream. Hoses spewed weakly and went dry. Fire extinguishers failed. Someone tripped over and spilled a precious bucket of water. The man at the central fire-control station telephoned the bridge to sound a general alarm-the Coast Guardsman on duty there could not find the right switch (there were two switches but both had been disconnected). Donning gas masks, men tried to get into the smoke-filled salon, discovered that the gas masks did not work, retreated, gasping for air. An officer found some hose, frantically tried...
...tried to swim ashore. One ate a jellyfish and jumped screaming over the side. Another, in demented fury before he died, tossed the one bucket of rain water overboard. They agreed to hold each body a day to make sure that death was real. By the third week only Kelly and another mess boy were left. When his sidekick gave up, Kelly waited 36 hours before he tossed him overboard. "After that," he said, "I laid down and tried to make myself comfortable, hoping that I could die without any more trouble." He was lying there waiting for death when...
...game was one of the roughest games of the year as the Elis completely covered the Crimson players. Hugh Hyde and Bunks Burditt, in their regular slots on the double-bucket offense, were so much out of the picture that they had only a few chances to receive passes or take shots...