Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gasoline spread around her in a sea of flames. Like many another skipper, Sherman had long before figured out just what he would do if he "caught a fish." In an inferno of smoke and exploding ammunition, he maneuvered his ship so that the flames blew away from the hull, backed her stern clear of the flaming, gasoline-covered water. Sherman was the last man to leave. He was burned, and badly shaken up by depth charges while he was in the water; 193 of his men were dead. But through the lane he had cleared off the stern...
Besides holding such sessions with Peron and his advisers, Miller faced the usual delicate task of making friends without rousing vociferous groups in the U.S. by appearing to approve all the works of the Peron regime. It was a task at which U.S. diplomats, from Cordell Hull to onetime Ambassador James Bruce, had not been conspicuously successful. Personable, lively, tactful and resourceful, Miller had obviously pondered many an hour on just how to walk this diplomatic tightrope...
...yard freestyle relay--Navy (Gilchrist, Strehlow, Bottom, Tuze); Harvard--disqualified--(Sachnoff, Stone, Hull, Brown). Time...
...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...
...yard medley relay: Steinhart, Graham, Sachnoff; 220-yard free, Berke, Kinney; 50-yard free: Fox, Stroud; Dive: Briggs, Weir; 100-yard free; Fox, Berke; 150-yard back: Steinhart, Woods; 200-yard breast: Vielman, Wheeler; 440-yard free: Tolf, Kinney; 400-yard free relay: Berke, Stroud or Hull, Stone or Sachnoff...