Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within half an hour the lights of a rescue ship, the British freighter City of Sydney, bore down on the survivors. Children were lifted aboard in cargo baskets, men and women scrambled up rope ladders. A German emigrant from West Berlin said fervently: "The Indian crew and the English officers of the City of Sydney behaved wonderfully to us. One of the Indians put as many as eight children in his bed and brought them refreshments." Next day the Skaubryn's passengers and crew, men and women from 20 nations, were transferred from the overcrowded freighter to the Italian...
...long roll of wrack at sea, the burning of the Skaubryn will be remembered as a disaster where men triumphed, and not the elements. The master of City of Sydney sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat in lowering 16 boats containing 1,300 people into the water in 35 minutes without loss of life or injury, with so little warning, and from a blazing ship, is a superb example of seamanship and discipline unique in maritime history. When you speak of this disaster, you can hold your heads...
...Using the traditional English stroke with its long layback, a favored Cambridge crew led Oxford and its American-style oarsmen all the way along the 4-mile-374-yd. course on the rain-and-wind-roiled Thames and won by 3½ lengths...
...explanation for Egypt's antagonism toward the U.S. and its allies: "We are defending ourselves" against "hostile action." For CBS, the filmed interview was a clean beat, made sweeter by the fact that when the show went on the air, ABC Interviewer Mike Wallace had a crew still waiting to grill him in Cairo. Last spring, when Khrushchev faced the CBS cameras, the network drew criticism for letting his remarks go on the air without an immediate rebuttal. This time, CBS cautiously topped its interview with able News Analyst Howard K. Smith's report on answers to Nasser...
...Nautilus and Seawolf, Dr. Dobbins told the Queensborough Rotary Club in New York's Long Island City this week, are not merely an extension of those met in conventional diesel-electric subs; they constitute "a really new and unique entity," in which the problem of protecting the crew against radiation is a surprisingly minor factor. Unlike old-fashioned subs, which had a Navy surgeon aboard as an occasional guest, the atomic subs always carry a medical officer and two hospital corpsmen to carry out round-the-clock safety checks and research...