Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carson Pirie Scott, a leading Chicago department store, displayed the weatherworn New Testament which Sergeant John Bartek read to buoy up Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his raftmates adrift on the Pacific...
...Buoy: a member of the Navy who lied about his age when enlisting...
Three days before the strike was to begin, Daggert went to Superintendent Robert Wilson, asked him to blow the quitting horn 30 minutes early. The men & women, their overalls soggy with sweat, hurried out of the sheds into the blazing sun. Daggert climbed on top a huge buoy he had been welding, stuttered a bit, then began booming in the voice he had used to referee many a Philadelphia fight...
...feeling from it. It's routine flight on which the bomber is shot down, and the picture makes you feel it's also routine for the crew to plug ahead, for calm Dutch girls to help them escape, and for British Naval vessels to find them on a floating buoy. Geogie Withers' interpretation of the unassuming girl who smuggles them out of the country leads a list of excellent acting jobs, with the entire British crew and Dutch townspeople a group of real humans...
...want to thank TIME for bringing us something besides the humdrum news of war, the fight for production, and self-sacrifice. These little success stories just buoy us up, make suffering easier, and make it all worth fighting...