Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupation. A barium X ray confirmed his diagnosis: Andy had punched a hole through his esophagus (gullet), narrowly missed his heart. His drinks were spilling through the hole into his chest cavity. The doctor called Surgeon Philip Thorek, an amateur movie fan who is careful to take a camera crew with him on unusual cases...
...Hangar C in the Snark compound, a bus disgorges a squad of Strategic Air Command trainees assigned to study the air-breathing missile. Another group runs a test on an 80-ft.-high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks...
...Waving pistols, 21 ragged, filthy men piled over the rail. Wakened by shouts, Hervey's wife Mildred rushed on deck, was held at gunpoint. The four-man crew was rounded up. Then the raiders, fugitives from the Galápagos penal colony on Isabela Island, demanded to be taken to the mainland...
...hasn't changed. Only he doesn't have the whistle he used to wear around his neck to get everyone quiet. He's an old ham-the minute he gets an audience he starts performing." During rehearsal breaks Berle clowned brassily. "Look," he exclaimed to the crew, after the first run-through, "I did it all without a Teleprompter." He half-sprinted from set to set, waving technicians aside with "Hey, hey, look out!" And, when he learned that a technician's wife had just had a baby, he presented the new father with a cigar...
...crew-cut teetotaler who grew up on the outskirts of Sydney, Talbot was a fair swimmer himself by the time he went to teachers college at Wagga Wagga. Now Talbot, who used to double as a grammar-school teacher, teaches swimming exclusively ($12 for ten 15-minute lessons with a beginner, $24 for six months with a competitor). His swimmers are his first concern. Says he, "You've got to really get close to them. You must be an adviser, friend and wailing wall." Coach Talbot goes to the lengths of prescribing intricate diets (e.g., wheat germ, lamb...