Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away the next morning. And for three days I waited at Gambut ... for another plane to Agedabia, and when that plane took off it was loaded with 30-gallon drums of gasoline lashed to the sides of the cabin with ropes. I was the only passenger...
...words: "Do you believe in God? Do you believe you'll be saved?" Though for the most part her only answer was a look of astonishment, she did talk frequently with old men & women, tried in her way to ease the lot of some young British sailors, cabin boys from the torpedoed transport Orama who, still in their early 'teens, had spells of loneliness for home and mother. (Three of them tried to escape one night, got as far as the lake, were caught and put in solitary confinement for days...
Winston Churchill reached for a towel after shaving. There was no towel. On board a British destroyer in the North Sea, his face and fingers dripping, he fumbled about in a linen closet in the captain's cabin and dried his face with the first available cloth. It turned out to be a British ensign, and is now hanging in C-33, Kirkland House, in the room of David E. Mann...
...ship's captain had appointed a special steward to assist the British Prime Minister, who, at the time of the irregularity, was shaving before a small mirror in the captain's cabin. The steward was embarrassed when he could find no towel in the cabin or anywhere on the vessel...
...Sixty seconds later the shifty Boise was concentrating everything her guns would throw on a fourth target. . . . This contact lasted four minutes and the Boise took a hit from an eight inch shell and several hits from five inch shells. The captain's cabin was demolished. A direct hit put one of her five-inch guns out of action. But in short order the enemy, which had been burning very brightly, exploded violently several times and was not seen again. . . . For two minutes the Boise had no target. Then fires were observed burning on an enemy destroyer...