Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cannibal Feast. At least two aviators were beheaded publicly by Matoba's own 308th Battalion, to buoy the troops' morale. In each case, the liver was cut from the still-warm bodies, delivered to Matoba's cook, cut into strips and served in sukiyaki. At one gay party, where the cannibal dish was washed down with sake, Tachibana was Matoba's guest. That night, during a U.S. air attack, Matoba boasted that enemy bombs could not hurt him because he had eaten the enemy's flesh...
...Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half price. Hits of the show: the Army's jet-propelled Shooting Star, a Coast Guard breeches-buoy rescue of an Old Howard burlesque dancer, Lotus DuBois. During the excitement 29 people were pushed into the Charles...
...year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier through the blank-blank sandbars...
Feminine Touch. In Port Douglas, Australia, a horned, buoy-like object on the beach, attacked energetically by a woman with a hammer, yielded a fine batch of clinging oysters; later, towed offshore by a mine-disposal squad, yielded a detonation that shook every building in town...
Then coming home from the excursion the beaut of the day was pulled. As the bus started over the Lars Andersen Bridge an alarmed and Regulation-ridden Curly Drexler shouted for all to attach a line and buoy to their wallets...