Word: cronk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite registration, the College does not open formally until 11 a.m. tomorrow when President Jordan and Dean Cronk-hite will address the undergraduate and graduate body...
...Durocher's behalf, some of them Dodger fans who said they had no love for Leo but felt that every man deserved a fairer deal than feckless Happy Chandler had dished out. Among the 100 affidavits collected for the defense of The Lip was one from George Cronk, a railroad fireman who swore that he, not Durocher, had accidentally tripped over Boysen and kicked...
...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...
...fourth trip-with 16 aboard the raft-went badly. The raft was swamped; a motor launch which managed to get its people aboard was hit by a wave which killed its engine and all but swamped it, too. Captain Cronk took the Bibb over to the swamped launch. As passengers began to be washed out of it, seamen leaped into the water for them; others reached out from life nets over the cutter's side to haul them to safety...
...Captain Cronk was no orator, but on this occasion few men could have put it better. Said he: "I can say that we were very happy ... to help. There is no greater happiness than in pulling people out of the sea. I don't know how to describe it but I don't think you can get that kind of happiness making any kind of money...