Word: convoyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...held high above their heads big rubber balloons. At signal they solemnly let go. The balloons rose into a cloud-flecked, moonlit sky. Then for several hours hydrogen hissed from tanks as some 2,000 other balloons were filled and released in the glare of lamps from a truck convoy...
...Cruel Sea, by Nicholas Monsarrat. A moving novel of life & death on the Atlantic convoy lanes in World War II (TIME...
...American Tournament at suburban Tarn O'Shanter Country Club, Sam Snead just scoffed at the "threats," declared: "I get calls from guys like that all the time." But as the tournament got under way, both Snead and Mangrum, playing under the watchful eyes of a convoy of cops and plainclothesmen, were clearly off their games. Mangrum wound up tied for sixth place; Snead was out of the running. The winner: former (1949) U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff, with...
...Cruel Sea, by Nicholas Monsarrat. A moving novel of life & death on the Atlantic convoy lanes in World War II (TIME...
...story is "of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men." It begins late in 1939, when the corvette Compass Rose, "a fiddling bloody little gash-boat," is commissioned. A few halcyon runs, and then the U-boats come. On one ghastly trip to Gibraltar, a convoy of 21 merchantmen is reduced to seven-a slaughter with all too many counterparts in wartime reality...