Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Johnson but Major General Enoch H. Crowder was director of the draft in World War I. But civilians handled registration, ruled on craft matters. Today even the director is a civilian, and, as TIME said, the Army keeps "as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
After three days the German Admiralty tersely claimed the complete destruction of a British convoy totaling 86,000 tons "on the British western route" by "surface craft of the German oversea Navy forces. . . . The attack of the German units was made with striking quickness, because, from the other ships sunk, not even SOS signals were caught by American radio stations." British authorities called the whole story "unlikely." They said that "a number of ships successfully eluded the raider." But day followed day with no further word from the Rangitiki, Cornish City or any other ship that had been with them...
...eastern Mediterranean. If they were cagey, they might even draw the Italian Fleet into the long desired open battle. Britain could also afford some air assistance. British planes were said to be taking part in raids on Porto Edda, Tirana and Durazzo in Albania, and last week this British craft-probably carrier-based Blackburns-bombed Naples to give the Italian foot its first stings of war. The glowing crater of Vesuvius lighted the way to blacked-out Naples...
Last week the eternal secret weapon reappeared in the news. At La Linea, next to Gibraltar, "a strange craft looking like the hybrid offspring of a torpedo and a launch" - ten feet long, equipped with a seat on either side slightly abaft the beam, drawn by a propeller in the nose, gasoline-motivated - was found on the beach. Its motor was still running and its crew had disappeared...
...each filled with 400 pounds of TNT, and equipped with both clockwork and contact detonators. The war heads were detachable from the main body of the machine. The torpedo would make two miles an hour and could be steered. In hours of darkness, Rossetti and Paolucci maneuvered this strange craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed one of the war heads and attached it to the side of the battleship Viribus Unitis, pride of the Austrian Navy. The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway. The former sank Viribus Unitis, the latter drifted...