Word: coxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shell donated last year had a special rudder control using special wire no longer available. It meant an easier job for the cox, who could steer with only one hand...
...Navy had its heroes. A swift motor torpedo boat commanded by Lieut. John D. Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...
...addition, gold trophies were presented to Coaches Harlow, Al McCoy, Earl Brown, Lyal Clark, Henry Lamar, Floyd Stahl, Frank Swirles, Morris Behm, Drs. Thorndike and Quigley, and Trainer Jimmy Cox...
Peabody and MacKinney will work out with trainer Jimmy Cox in the Indoor Athletic Building during the next few weeks to keep from going too stale, but actual practice sessions will not begin until the afternoon of December 18 when the all-star team will get together for the first time in Evanston, Illinois...
Other American League teams with large followings: the brand-new Washington Lions, managed by Ching Johnson, onetime Ranger star; the Philadelphia Rockets, managed by Danny Cox, another famed old Ranger; the Springfield (Mass.) Indians, not only managed but owned by Eddie Shore, the bruising old Boston Bruin, for more than a decade the biggest crowd puller of them...