Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendly, gregarious Harry Truman had his fun during his half-week trip to Missouri with Winston Churchill. Their Baltimore & Ohio private train was out of Washington less than an hour when the President walked its length, shaking hands with reporters, cameramen, secret service men, crewmen. Up in the cab of the diesel engine he delighted himself and cameramen by pulling on a pair of cotton work gloves and sitting at the controls while the long, blue train rumbled through the West Virginia hills...
Working out the kinks of his crewmen in cold weather. Coach Bolles hopes to have his men ready for permanent spring...
...bluejacket knew, the 574 Nazi crewmen were supposed to be prisoners, due to be returned to Germany under guard while the Eugen was readied for extinction in the Navy's Pacific atomic-bomb experiment. But the eyes of the visitors from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania saw only heroes...
Cambridge crewmen, on just as austere a diet, were inclined to think Oxford was alibiing in advance. The Cambridge Eight (including two ex-R.A.F. pilots, and an Australian sapper) averaged...
Oxford blamed it on the austerity diet. Its crew, which before the war got two steaks a day per man, was now down to an egg a week and no steaks. Crewmen, stroked by R.M.A. Bourne (a prisoner of the Germans for three years, whose father and grandfather had stroked and later coached the Oxford boat), averaged a puny 154 Ibs. Prewar average: 180 Ibs. Last week Oxford ordered the lightest boat in its history, for the 96th race with Cambridge March...