Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transports were combat-loaded, i.e., "backwards," kitchen gear put aboard first because it probably would be needed last; assault vehicles loaded last so they would be on top and could be spewed out onto the grey ships. On the quay stood a few tight knots of women. The men were the ist Provisional Marine Brigade, well-trained and well-equipped but fewer than 5,000 strong. Their commander told them: "There will be casualties among you." At week's end, heavily convoyed, the expedition departed...
...faith in good luck and seat-of-the-pants intuition. There were no radio ranges, no airways weather reports, none but the most rudimentary of cockpit instruments. Clambering into the open cockpit of an old Pitcairn biplane, Pilot Proctor, swathed to the eyes in fleece-lined flying gear, used to start his run at Buffalo, lug his mail to Cleveland, navigating by landmarks and cruising at 80 m.p.h...
...fire irons, tribes of tongs, shovels in sheaves Skeleton bedsteads, wardrobe drawers agape, Rows of tall, slim brass lamps with dangling gear And worse, cast clothes a-sweetening...
...bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn't hear the commands of their drill sergeant, a noncom of impressive voice who was known as "Screaming Skull...
...tour through Florida tournaments last winter had cost money. Where did the money come from? The U.S.G.A., which worries rather more about such matters than the corresponding guardians of college football or even lawn tennis, was about to put a discreet investigation of the Bauers' income into high gear. Last week the little Bauer girls put the investigation into reverse...