Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like many another understudy in her big moment, Erica was nervous, but she did fine for two acts. Then she put on the bewitched jacket and started the third. She went pale, choked and forgot her lines. "My throat went suddenly dry," she explained weakly after the curtain finally came down. "I felt a great hand clutching me from behind. It was horrible." She indignantly denied any suggestion that the trouble might have stemmed from her nerves-or her imagination...
...awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
...cast of A Queen Came By went back to their humdrum jobs-and a quick look at the racing form. A horse named Jacket was running in the fourth at Newmarket. The entire cast put their money on his nose. Jacket romped home, paying four...
...whistle shrilled the abandon-ship alarm. Nightgowned women and screaming children rushed to the decks. The crew quickly got all passengers into the lifeboats, dropped the boats halfway over the side. There the passengers huddled for three hours, until rescue ships came alongside. Sunrise revealed that the Magdalena had been sailing a good five miles out of the steamer lane, a bare two miles off the rock-strewn shore...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...