Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-four days later, they had sailed and been blown 1,000 miles by one of the worst South Sea hurricanes in history. The man who pulled them through could shake hands with Captain Bligh.* Hawknosed Bomber Pilot Harold Dixon was a man that Bligh would fancy. Dixon was a hard guy from Oklahoma, who came up the hard way and never knew when he had enough...
With him was Radioman Gene Aldrich, 22, a husky, gabby, self-confident Missouri farm boy, and Ordnanceman Tony Pastula, shy, dreamy, sandy-haired son of Polish immigrants. After CCC camps in the West, they had both joined the Navy to see the world. But with 41-year-old Dixon, whose first hitch began in 1919, the Navy was a business. He took charge as soon as his beloved bomber sank from sight...
...first night wasn't bad. Dixon would have loved a cigaret, but he lived. So did the other. When a searching plane missed their tiny raft the next day, they all realized that living was the only thing they had left...
...First Negro to be a world's champion: Bantamweight George Dixon...
Those of the varsity soccer squad who received a minor 'H' were Elihu H. Berman '44; William S. Butcher '44; John D. Calhoun '43; John L. Clarke '43; Nelson J. Darling Jr. '42; John W. Dixon '43; Ervin T. Drake 3d '44; Richard P. Gifford '43; Robert J. Harbison 3d '44; Monroe E. Herskovits '43; Friedrich F. M. Kempner '44; Horace G. Killam Jr. '43; George W. Mallory '44; Howard P. Malloy '44; William V. G. Mathews '43; Morton Myerson '42; John G. Penson '42; Captain; Daniel S. Poor '42; Allen M. Sachs '42; John E. Sawhill, Jr. '43; Dorraine...