Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder rolled over the jeep. General Li leaned out and said quietly, "Careful, careful, we are passing under your muzzle...
...needed to take care of even the skeleton 80-man crew planned for the trip, will have to be collected from Harvard Clubs and graduates throughout the nation. To make up some of this sum the Band may play to Harvard Clubs in San Francisco and, on the way back, Chicago...
...Dday, Churchill demanded a spectator's place on one of the supporting naval vessels. Ike, afraid that Churchill might become a casualty, refused to give his permission and the Prime Minister threatened to ship as a crew member. King George personally settled that one by telling Churchill that he would go along himself to lead the landing troops, if the Prime Minister persisted. That ended the argument...
Coach Tom Bolles, winding up crew activity for the fall, started his five eights just below Cottage Farm Bridge, with the Leavitt unit pulling ahead and leading all the way to the finish opposite MIT's sailing pavilion. Stroke George Lodge held the winners' beat at about...
Even the touch football artists could tell from the shouts that the Varsity was building a bonfire. And ironically enough, just as Art Valpey's team was firing up for the game, the remains of the "B" on the Stadium turf were being burned up by the maintainence crew...