Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrary, on all sides we see evidence that the nation recognizes fully the necessity for reorienting our sights. We know that the end no longer justifies the means. We know that the collective demands of a group--a ship's company, a regiment or a bombing crew--no longer have life or death hold over an individual. For military courage we must substitute civic courage...
...news-hungriest audience among the prisoners, long cut off from any word of the world outside the barbed-wire. Said Chaplain R. S. Waldrop: "These copies are a Godsend, for these men are as hungry for news as they are for food and medical aid." A B-29 crew man shot down in a big fire raid last spring had a different angle...
...Haruna story has long since been set straight, although the legend persists. Actually, the late Colin Kelly bombed a ship from 20,000 feet, was killed when his plane was attacked and set afire by Zeros. Surviving crew members thought the ship was the Haruna, which was not permanently disabled until last July...
...grocer and his family are not an edifying crew. The grocer (played with enthusiastic hatred by Character Actor Vladimir Vladislavsky), is hoarding all the money which his former employer, a Jew, left in his safekeeping. By law, he should have turned over half of it to the Reich. The grocer's daughter and her crippled fiance use this knowledge to blackmail him into setting up the fiance to a store of his own. The grocer's son, when he comes home on leave from the Russian front, is half insane with contempt for his family; and his pathological...
...yacht, he bought a 236-ft. boat for $1,000,000. But he rarely used it, in 1941 finally sold it to the U.S. Maritime Commission for the Navy for $175,000. When a friend asked him how things were aboard, he gave a businesslike reply. Said he: "The crew of 43 is eating regularly and appears to be healthy...