Word: inrushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Nurse Corps there are some 40,000 women; 27,000 of them are overseas. Although many of them, in temporarily inactive theaters, are idle, they have to be kept at hand for any sudden inrush of patients. The Corps says it needs 1,000 more for overseas. The 13,000 left in Army hospitals in the U.S. are too few. The Corps is after at least 10,000 more...
...boat deck. The lifeboat itself was eventually freed from the ship and stood a good chance of safety. But as the Yorkshire sank she listed heavily to starboard and this lifeboat was capsized by the funnel, and we believe that the occupants were drawn down it by the inrush of water...