Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Briefing. At Sasebo, we waited 2½ hours for MacArthur's command ship; typhoon seas had delayed it. As soon as it docked we put to sea. Next day MacArthur invited the correspondents to the cabin of the task force commander, Rear Admiral James Doyle. The general seemed somewhat worn by the buffeting the ship was taking from the rough waters. In a low voice he explained the strategy behind the coming operation...
...Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...small cabin off the flag bridge of an Essex-class carrier, known in the fleet as "the Showboat," Admiral Edward Coyle Ewen sat sipping orangeade, explaining the targets for the next day. Task Force 77 was barreling along Korea's west coast, intent on blasting strategic targets at Pyongyang, Seoul and Inchon. While Ewen was talking, fuel and ordnance men readied the Showboat's planes...
...occasion when "bogies" (unidentified and presumably enemy planes) were reported only 18 miles off, an excited officer in the flag-plot cabin reached for the ship-to-ship radio telephone and dropped it. Another excited officer darted to pick it up, and upset the transmitter. Radford, who had been watching, picked up the telephone, quietly gave an order: "Emergency Turn 9," and turned away. No one ever heard him raise his voice in the stress of battle...
Among the guns and fire-control apparatus of the after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs...