Word: hulked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light carrier Independence. Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, said as he stepped on the hulk's buckled flight deck: "She certainly can't be called a flattop any more. She's a rooftop...
...Bevin, a brown hulk between his Russian adversary and his American friend, Stettinius, staring down the line of his cigarette at the table, or when he spoke as no diplomat in his time had publicly spoken, revolving his great, unhandsome head as though it were a vocal beacon...
Furthermore, I had the wonderful assurance that whenever Jim piled his great hulk into a bucket seat and started off for some sore spot, I could stop worrying about that particular problem...
Last week the charred hulk of the Franklin lay in Brooklyn Navy Yard. Whole sections of her were gone; it would be a long time before she fought again. By official count, 832 of her men were dead or missing, 270 had been wounded. In all naval history, few warships had taken such punishment; perhaps none had ever suffered so and come home...
...transport cruising slowly back & forth off the sulphurous, bloody hulk of Iwo Jima, Navy doctors knew there was no chance for Sergeant Charles Carter Anderson Jr., U.S.M.C.; he would never see the sun again. Sixteen hours after the young marine had been brought aboard, he died. His death certificate was filled out and sent to the captain of the ship. Grimly the skipper signed it: Captain Charles Carter Anderson, U.S.N...