Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent" fingerprints revealed on a vanity mirror, a purse, a water glass, a door and a plate. The third, and not the least important, was Corazon's description of the killer: a white man, approximately 25 years old, 6 ft. tall, weighing 170 Ibs., with crew-cut brownish hair...
...ringed likely targets that in the past month ground fire has claimed an average of one U.S. plane a day over North Viet Nam. Last week five U.S. planes were downed. One of them was an Air Force Phantom. Set afire by flak, the Phantom's two-man crew sent out a distress signal, then radioed that they were going to try to reach the Gulf of Tonkin...
Hostile Land & Unforgiving Sea. Pilot Jesse J. Anderson, 39, had been orbiting his HU-16 amphibious Albatross over the Gulf for nearly seven hours when he picked up the Phantom's cry for help. Gunning his motors, Anderson sped toward the crippled plane. Before he arrived, the crew bailed out: one pilot dropped into the waters of the Gulf barely half a mile from the North Viet Nam coast, the other a mile farther out. Both were soon under heavy shore fire from machine guns and mortars as they bobbed helplessly in the water. Six U.S. fighter planes zoomed...
...students may have been surprised by their own activity; the Times was not. No replacements are hired for vacationing staffers, and it is expected that the trainees will fill in. Every summer the entire crew-which may include anyone from a next-fall high school senior on up-is scattered through all phases of the paper. Wherever they work, they soon learn that they are attending one of the most productive and practical journalism schools in the country...
...Liverpool, dock-wallopers practice a custom called "welting"; half of an eight-man crew works while the other half loafs, and at intervals they change roles. Welting was adopted in World War II for quite another purpose-to enable dockers to survive backbreaking twelve-hour days. It is recognized as such a good thing that it is practiced in other British industries...