Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot, were almost always supplied by air. Some of them headed west of Chungking toward Tibet, and into mountain country which no white man had ever explored. Others battled leech-ridden jungles and flooded rivers; one group swam a swollen stream to find the bodies of a B-29 crew, swam back, pushing their grisly burden on a raft...
...Terry and the Pirates. Communist detachments held some of them prisoner, in the belief that they were spies for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. One A.G.R.S. team crossed into Indo-China and found a blonde French woman leading a band of Vietnamese guerrillas. A C-47 crew, which crashed in the Himalayan hills, walked back 350 miles through bandit country. For fear of dysentery they lived entirely on boiled eggs until natives talked them into a meal of fried bees (which tasted like a cross between meat and nuts...
Coach Bill Barclay will trim down his swollen crew of 40 links candidates to a team of nine or ten this week, in preparation for Saturday's opener against M.I.T...
Oarsmen will be under the direction of business school student Dick Davis, who rowed for the Cornell crew...
Shells from each of the Houses will be but on the river every night, getting in practice for the championship race, which is scheduled to be held the second week in May. Awaiting the winner will be the Agassiz cup. Each House crew will have its own coach...