Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pass the time while waiting, Pilot Marsh and members of his crew fished in the Little Big Horn. One morning while fishing they saw a mounted Indian burst through the brush on the water's edge. He pulled up his sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations...
...west of Land's End, two U.S. merchant ships collided. The American Farmer, with a 35-foot hole in her port side, soon had her forward holds full of water and her fore-decks awash. The William J. Riddle took aboard the Farmer's 57 passengers and crew, transferred them to another U.S. ship, and then made shore at Barry, Wales, with her own bow stove in at the waterline...
Boarding Party. Nevertheless the Ranger put aboard a crew that outnumbered the British party, got the engine started, cast off the British towlines, lowered the British flag, restored the Stars and Stripes, and ordered the British off the ship. They got off. According to an R.A.F. pilot who flew over the scene, "it looked like a hell of a battle going on down there." But the Elizabete's second officer said later that there were "only black looks and curses...
Time-trials yesterday gave the crew stroked by Howland Hall a slight edge over the two opponents, stroked by Dick Emmet and Bill Malcom, Ball's crew is composed of four former varsity and four former 150-pound Varsity oarsmen from last spring's crews. The other boats are heavier, two members of Emmet's boat having rowed on the Junior Varsity...
...shoddy conduct of some newsmen. "Many . . . apparently had never been aboard a naval vessel before. Some acted as if the trip was the Lost Weekend. A few tipped the crew and messboys with large bills as if they were in a nightclub. Drinking and drunkenness . . . [were] for a time prevalent, and some . . . gave liquor to the crew...