Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just after dawn a 327-ft. Coast Guard cutter hove into sight - "the most beautiful ship in the world." The cutter's crew threw ropes to men on the rafts. Some were too weak to grasp the lines. Coast Guardsmen dived into the icy water, tied ropes around them. Repeatedly the big cutter had to break off rescue operations, dash away to drop depth charges. Each time she came back. Before she sailed on the cutter had saved...
...program re-enacted the Coast Guard cutter Campbell's 12-hour scrap with six U-boats in the North Atlantic. Of the Campbell's attack on the sixth submarine, the eyewitness account said...
...Statistical School become coed? Who is the female who occupies (appropriately) a back seat in class and places a "restraining influence" on the Professors whenever a "quip" is forthcoming? The secret is out. She is Miss Thelma Cutter of the Glass Hall secretarial staff, who, incidentally, is progressing admirably in the studies given the "Singing Statisticians." If ever a Women's Army Statistical Patrol (WASP) is organized, she'll surely become No. 1 Stinger...
...look good-but not too good-in newsreels and portraits. U.S. voters like their candidates big, broad-shouldered, modestly handsome. Citizens generally refrain from voting for a politician who makes them laugh-unless, like New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the man is obviously an expert caper-cutter. At the same time they suspect any candidate who gestures as if he went to dramatic school, and doubly suspect one handsome enough to inspire a faraway look in their wives' eyes...
...world's blindfold chess champion is 39-year-old, Belgian-born Georges Koltan-owski, a Manhattan diamond cutter. Last week in an exhibition match at the Manhattan Chess Club Koltanowski played six unblindfolded club members simultaneously, won four games, drew...