Word: crew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recognized as a pro tem government and that it was under control had been contradicted by the action and words of SHAEF's General Rooks. Military necessity may have required General Eisenhower and his field commanders to use the interim services of Admiral Doenitz and his motley crew in bringing the huge German machine under control. If so, circumstances had given "the German High Command" at Flensburg a fateful opportunity, and Doenitz & Co. had made the most of it. The world had not heard the last of that peculiarly German institution, the General Staff Corps...
Before the submarine was unloaded, bemonocled General Kessler thoughtfully read a book entitled After the War-What? by American Author Preston Slosson. Crew members were ordered by U.S. guards to keep their arms folded as they came into port. Kapitänleutnant Johann Fehler, the U-boat's skipper, protested indignantly to Coast Guard Lieut. Charles Winslow that "your men treated us like gangsters." Growled Winslow: "That's what...
Harvard's crew wore handlebar mustaches (false) and foolish grins. Radcliffe's crew, in white shirts and red ribbons, looked deadly serious. The race was to be a half-mile on the Charles River, down stream...
...crews got off the mark last week, a brassièred and bewigged M.I.T. crew, which had been hiding upstream, joined the fun long enough to come skimming between them. Then Harvard pulled off to a one-length lead, and coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight...
...eight conscripts of this British picture are painfully slow in breaking their civilian molds. 'Out of their early sullenness, bewilderment, arrogance and naivete, the producers have wrung convincing reality-and tempered it with genuine irony and humor. In putting it on the screen, a crew of excellent actors have more than exceeded the line of duty...