Word: ensigns
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...have two sons. One is an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserves, the other will be of draft age in June. Still I can't believe that our program should not be an all-out effort to crush the dictators, instead of trying to appease them...
...docks while her old body is torn apart and filled with new organs. The human action is a series of bloody brawls, the friendships and conflicts of men too close together for too long a time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town...
...Boyle. Another ?1,000 went to 26-year-old Oswald Ross Preston, U. S. volunteer to the R. A. F., now on duty with the Eagle Squadron, because he played a "magnificent" part when the battle started. To his prize money the crew added the tattered red ensign of the San Demetrio, never hauled down till she reached the Clyde...
Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Robert B. Clark, the copilot, stuck by the ship...
...four jumpers did not have long to thank their stars. A Navy transport (Douglas R3D-1) flew from San Diego, picked them up, headed back without Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Clark. Again, the plane belted into a storm, got within 40 miles of San Diego and safety. A work man on the ground thought that he saw flame in the sky; a rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened...