Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxious expression, a rueful laugh, a lemony sense of humor-and a tongue in his head that has won him a reputation in Chicago for soundly progressive ideas. He has been away from Chicago for nearly seven years. He served as a wartime assistant to Secretaries Frank Knox, Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius; he went abroad on several missions for the State Department. Stevenson has numerous friends both in the downstate area (where his family for generations has owned the Bloomington Pantagraph) and on Chicago's La Salle Street, where many Republicans have already promised him their votes...
...never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's legal section in World War II. Most knowing Tennesseans figured that Judge Mitchell, with Mister Crump's support...
...green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...plane seemed possessed of devils. It washed down on the cutter, crashed into the ship's hull and stove in its own nose. For seven hours, the cutter could do little but stand by as close as Captain Cronk dared, and make a lee as the plane's crew nervously jockeyed the Sky Queen's nose into the wind...
...night, the Sky Queen was blown 60 miles, and there was little the Bibb could do but make a lee, keep her searchlights on the plunging plane and wait for the worst. There were still 24 men and one woman aboard the plane. But the flying boat's hull stayed intact. In the morning, with the wind abating, the last of the passengers and crew were safely taken off. The cutter riddled the Sky Queen with gunfire, stood by while she burned and sank, then turned home...