Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered the Maine woods for a man-v.-nature tussle in 1913, emerged two months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus increased its circulation more than...
...General Vandegrift, who can be seen in the evenings stretched out meditatively in a canvas deck chair in front of his heavily fly-sprayed cabin, has been cool, softspoken, crafty, hard and wonderfully cheerful. The Air Commander . . . wears his cigar and chooses his tactics with a jaunty air. The colonels who command Marine regiments and battalions lie in coral-crusted mud with their men, dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps...
Their targets were two ships lying side by side in Navarino Bay, laden with supplies for Rommel. The lead planes were almost in position. Grant Parr of the New York Times "crouched in a niche just behind the forward cabin, leaning out over the open bomb bay." It was deathly cold, but he was too excited to notice. "With a slight jar our bombs fell away, seemingly far wide of their mark. Then momentum and wind drift whipped them in toward the transports like a fast curve breaking over the plate...
...pressure cabin Junkers 86-P was reported to have been used over Britain. A bomber reconnaissance plane, it is said to have a 40,000-ft. ceiling...
...later as Lieut. Windsor, he served eight years in the Royal Navy. When one of his ships, H.M.S. Durban, put into San Diego, Calif. and Lieut. Windsor frolicked for two unauthorized days with Lili Damita and her film friends, he atoned for the next 30 days, confined to his cabin. His health, never so vigorous as his spirit, waned in the Navy and in 1929, when he was 26, he left the service...