Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alerted by the submarines' contact reports, Bull Halsey ordered his carriers to launch air strikes against Kurita'and opened the Battle of Sibuyan Sea on Oct. 24. In all, Halsey's planes made 259 sorties, sinking battleship Musashi, putting heavy cruiser Myoko out of action and damaging several others. (Halsey's carrier Princeton was fatally wounded by a land-based Japanese Judy, the only one of scores of Philippine-based planes to score.) As the battle went against him, Kurita reversed course, as if retiring, then turned back toward San Bernardino Strait...
...Georgia Tech (4-0)-made a ball carrier out of Blocking Back Taz Anderson, turned him loose for both touchdowns in a 14-7 defeat of tough, unbeaten Tennessee...
...Tell her something different for once, that you live in Bankok and go to the University of Thailand. You came to the game on your roommate's carrier pigeon; it was a pretty difficult trip, all in all, you could never keep the bird on its course. Then tell her that the Adriatic is beautiful at sunset, that the waves smell like honeysuckle and musk. Tell her something different for once...
...loquacious type." Though he wore the conventional double-thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains of staph are the deadliest bacteria now plaguing hospitals in the U.S. and all other countries where modern, miracle-drug medicine is practiced...
...seven kills, Distinguished Flying Cross) in the Pacific in World War II, returned to a series of B-grade films, recently made a comeback on TV; of a heart attack, while visiting his old squadron commander, Captain David McCampbell, top U.S. Navy ace in World War II, aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard; at Oakland. Calif...