Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty-two years in the Navy shaped the thinking of Bill Leahy, born on a farm near Hampton, Iowa. As a midshipman at Annapolis he sailed aboard the leaky, century-old frigate Constellation. As an ensign, he was a member of the crew that took the Oregon racing around the Horn and bellowing into Santiago Harbor...
...Their shipmates cut away the wreckage to get at hundreds of bodies, hauled them out and consigned them to the sea. The stench of death pervaded the passageways. Weeks later parts of men were still being discovered. From sunup to sundown, to save them from insanity, Gehres drove his crew...
...crew of 25, many of them veterans of the Pacific war, man her. Among the veterans: indestructible Captain Dixie Kiefer, one of the Navy's top carrier skippers; he was severely wounded when the carrier Yorktown sank in the Battle of Midway, was seen commanding a carrier in the brilliant documentary movie The Fighting Lady and was wounded again this year in battle...
Time & again Huston led his men into no man's land hours ahead of an attack (once they were caught for hours in cross fire) ; constantly, he caromed from man to man of his small crew, guiding them to the best positions, the best shots. Day & night at odd moments during the fighting, Huston shaped and reshaped his scenario, and wrote his narration...
...days later an outraged posse arrived at Susanna Wells's popular brothel in Enfield Wash (a section of London), house they found a raffish crew: susanna Wells herself; Sal Howit, her daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old gypsy named Mary Squires. But for all its ominous air, the house failed to match Elizabeth's description. The only room that could possibly have been her "empty loft" was thick with ancient, unbroken cobwebs. One window was boarded, but there was another not even latched. There were no footprints...