Word: craw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Harbor came too late for Colonel Demas T. ("Nick") Craw of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Congenitally unable to wait for war, he took his fighting when & where he found it as a ("neutral") military observer in the Middle East and Europe...
When the Axis entered Athens some U.S. officials stayed behind. One day Nick's car brushed the fender of another carrying an Italian lieutenant and two privates. The lieutenant leaped from his car, slapped Craw. Again Nick did not wait for a declaration of war; the beautiful Italian uniform flopped in the dusty street. A German officer pulled Nick off the two privates...
...Casablanca last fortnight, Nick Craw volunteered to go ashore, try to persuade the French commander to surrender. After one fruitless trip, Nick tried again. Machine-gun bullets sang overhead. It was the excitement Nick liked. Then the bullets thudded into his body...
...Forks of the Wolf. On the way the No. 1 U.S. war hero quietly passed up a fortune in commercial publicity ventures. One of them was an offer from Jesse L. Lasky to make a picture. The hero's flat refusal stuck hard in Producer Lasky's craw. In the spring of 1940, he finally persuaded the Hero York that it had become a patriotic duty to film his life...
Young Segura may be no Perry, Craw ford or Von Cramm, but he is the most fascinating foreigner to invade U.S. tennis courts since dazzling Henri Cochet. Like Cochet, Segura picked up the game as ball boy: at Ecuador's swank Guayaquil Tennis Club. Small and puny, he found two hands better than one, never gave up his ten-fingered grip...