Word: faintings
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...horizon the instructor placed a scale model of a Jap ship. Black ship on black sea. Gradually the electrician turned on the dawn effect. To a landsman all was still dark, but one of the lookouts sang: "Ship! Bearing zero zero five." The black ship took faint shape as the light increased almost imperceptibly. "I think it's a carrier." It was. The artificial night was still black enough to make a cat stumble, but the lookout called the class and course of the enemy warcraft...
...faculty has its orders, to take it easy on the poor lads. This mill goes on for weeks; every Friday the plunger squirts a package of little demons into 950 unsuspecting arms. And then guys start to faint, and instructors make with mercy...
...Satevepost's cover for May 29, one William B. Sommerville of Lawrence, Kans. saw something that rang faint bells in his memory. What he saw was a lordly, rotund lady riveter named Rosie (see cut), ankles crossed, overalled knees relaxed, looking royally satisfied with herself and her bulging cheekful of ham sandwich. Mr. Sommerville took Rosie the Riveter to the public library. Memory's bells became a carillon when he turned up a reproduction of Michelangelo's Isaiah (see cut). Mr. Sommerville sent his find to the Kansas City Star, which made good-humored...
...story of the Commandos is rarely so spectacular. As told in simple, forceful language by Combined Operations Recorder Saunders, it is a story rich in dogged labor as well as sparkling achievement. And the enemy does not usually faint when surprised...
...light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...