Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thanks to you for your honest reporting of the W.C.T.U. situation in this country. The spectacle of this group trying to exploit our national crisis to enforce prohibition again is to me a nauseating...
...into the Jap's rear and the plane fell into the sea off Guadalcanal. Then Smitty spotted another, attacking the wingman of his Marine squadron. He banked sharply, caught the Zero full in his sights and that was two down in almost as many minutes. Telling about the exploit, Smitty was carefully casual...
...Balchen and Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name...
Behind the exploit was the patient labor of a tall, thirtyish, toothy assistant to U.S. High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre named Woodbury Willoughby. Willoughby gathered the treasure from Philippine banks, counted gold and silver, burned currency and securities after recording their serial numbers, then supervised its transfer...
...Commander Cassin Young, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit at Pearl Harbor. Blown overboard by an explosion, he swam back to his ship, climbed aboard and calmly maneuvered it to safety...