Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (Newark, N.J.) needed mechanics who could crawl inside flying-boat wings, hold rivets in place while workmen outside hammered away with rivet guns. Brewster's skinniest workers found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco ("Johnny Gee" for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed...
...used to go fishing in Bank Lick, between the Confederate and Federal lines near the Ken tucky-Ohio border. In those days, if you were lucky, you could get 92-lb. catfish in Midwestern rivers. The boys called themselves Boone's Scouts; they would crawl on their hands and knees if the pickets began shooting at each other over their heads. Once Dan was fishing in Bank Lick when a beech tree suddenly exploded in the quiet afternoon, split as if hit by lightning. It had stopped a solid ball from a monstrous Columbian...
...dialogue of Fight Camp is not the sort usually provided by soap operators. Characters inquire of one another: "What manhole did you crawl out of?" and express such opinions as "This guy'll louse us up." Its first episode revolves about the widow's search for a fighter of sufficient prowess to prevent her establishment's going broke...
...year-old Indianapolis minnow, set a new U. S. record for the 220-yd. breast stroke - 3 min., 7.8 sec., 1.2 sec. better than the mark set last summer by Japanese Fujiko Katsutani of Honolulu. Little Patty used the exhausting butterfly stroke (an overarm stroke as in the crawl, with both arms moving together) for the full 220 yards...
Helene Rains, 16, won the 300-yd. medley (breast stroke, backstroke, crawl) in 4 min., 4.9 sec. Besides swimming, Miss Rains, a Manhattan music student, plays the piano, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, flute and saxophone, studies tap, toe, adagio and acrobatic dancing. In spare moments she paints...