Word: corder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land between East and West one clear day last week, a U.S. Navy P4M Mercator patrol plane lumbered along at 7,000 ft. above the Sea of Japan, 55 nautical miles east of the North Korean coast. A few minutes after noon, Tail Gunner Donald E. Corder, 20, aviation electrician's mate, spotted two red-starred MIGs, already boring down in a gunnery run on the Mercator. Their guns began to spit bullets. "They're firing at us," he shouted into the intercom. Lieut. Commander Donald Mayer, 35, barked a fireback order. But cross-conversation blocked the intercom...
...Guns. Unfortunately, the Navy then performed with far less skill on the public-relations front. After Tail Gunner Corder was taken to a hospital (his condition: very good), the 13 other crewmen were hustled into a press conference. Why, correspondents wanted to know, had the Mercator not fired back with its other weapons - two .50-cal. guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future...
...Corder: Well, ah, Joe, I don't think I'd say that if I were...
...Corder: But what I mean is that it's not a Christian attitude...
Besides using Joe the Baptist to point up such ticklish Christian problems as race relations, Corder draws a lesson from the fact that Joe can do nothing by himself. Says he: "We are all like Joe ... All of us depend on God for all that we do. Without God we cannot amount to much, but if we let God take the controls of our lives and speak through us, then we can amount to something ... I hope that God has talked through me and through...