Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once been a home. By the application of imagination, exhausting effort and money, we got together a native repair crew who did a job of painting and renovation which still is far from U.S. standards. By haunting the Government, we seem likely to get a phone (in Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped...
...Cairo took off from Paris, a party of marines reached a snowy peak in California's Laguna Mountains. There, among a litter of wrecked engines, with gaily wrapped Christmas packages amidst the twisted metal, they found what they had come for-the bodies of nine passengers and three crew members of Western Airlines Flight 44-El Centre to San Diego...
Beggar's Holiday has a full crew of mobsters, doublecrossers and madams; it skips from brothels to hobo jungles to clinks; but it lacks satiric or any other kind of momentum. It skitters between monkeyshines and melodrama, dilutes the satire, overdoes the sex. But it remains, by Broadway standards, refreshingly unconventional. While giving little to Beggar's Holiday, The Beggar's Opera perhaps took something vital away-the chance to start from scratch, to build homogeneously from the ground...
Packed back to Caracas, the newsmen were told by amiable, bespectacled Provisional President Rómulo Betancourt that the revolt was over and that "all is O.K." in Venezuela. The 200-odd rebels who had captured the Maracay Airport gave up that afternoon. The lone plane crew that tried to bomb the Presidential Palace in Caracas had missed, and the scattering revolutionary outbursts in the interior found little popular support. President Betancourt had himself crimped rebel strategy: instead of going to Maracay for graduation exercises at Venezuela's West Point of the Air-and facing capture-he had wisely...
Drawing deep down into their reserves, the Varsity took the quarter-mile with ease, and the final free style relay was captured by a motley crew that included a distance man and a breast-stroker...