Word: cruiser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cruiser hauled up alongside, and an officer shouted through a megaphone: "Where you from? Where you bound?" The answer, "Cape Town to New Orleans," came in broken English-third suspicion...
...half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion...
...cruiser approached, made...
...cruiser dispatched a boarding party. But before the boarding party could get to the "Willmoto," the merchantman hauled down her call and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): "I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew." Immediately afterward there were two dull explosions aft, and lifeboats dropped...
...moment when he came back over Tobruk our forces opened a bombing attack on the town, a queer coincidence. Our men were bombing from 20,000 feet and Balbo flew in at 2,000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor . . . opened fire and struck the Marshal's plane with a direct hit. . . . All this talk about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot. . . . He was really a first-class chap . . . and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business...