Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attack. Before the first crashing chords of the new Berlin overture were heard, the orchestra began tuning in the pit. A British armed vessel off Norway's west coast fought two German submarines. Fishermen took ashore half a dozen dead, 40-10-50 wounded, of both nationalities. The Britisher and one submarine went down. British submarines were in the Skagerrak, past German minefields...
...happen one night last week when, at 8:15 p.m., two big airplanes came diving down over him through the low-lying clouds "with crazy speed." They were headed for List, the settlement in Sylt's northern tip, whence (as all Danes know) most birds and all fishermen long since moved out to make way for a Nazi seaplane base...
...Ocean Park, Wash., fishermen reported that an oyster snared a duck by its foot at low tide, drowned it when the water rose...
...Artist Chapin is no repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...
...meat supplies enormously. Last week the Admiralty announced that British shipowners must provide shelter from machine-gun fire for the crews of all vessels plying out of British ports. The Admiralty will equip all North Sea ships, from fishing smacks up, with anti-aircraft guns. Already 10,000 fishermen have been recruited to clear British coasts of German mines. Last week the Admiralty called for 10,000 more, ages 18 to 45 (experienced men as old as 72 have been accepted...