Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giant Swing. That was only the beginning of the Sky Queen's ordeal. The sight of her, tumbling and pitching "like a giant swing at Coney Island," made Captain Paul Cronk, commander of the Bibb, feel "horrified" and "sick." He had been awakened by a steward only a little before, had "found myself frozen stiff in the middle of my quarters" by the news that the plane carried 69 people...
Mothers were almost too weak to care for their babies. Said Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Great Neck, Long Island: "I believed there was no escape from the plane. . . . The babies' screams just tore every mother's heart to pieces. Every woman would say, There, there.' But that was about all they ever said. Our three-year-old son, Gordon, spent hours on his father's knee . . . never saying a word. We said ten thousand goodbyes with our eyes that...
Today's race will singular in that the Crimson runners have participated only in triangular contests so far this fall. In the opening meet, they lost to a potent M.I.T. squad, while shading Holy Cross, and last week, they watched the entire Rhode Island State team disappear over the sylvan Franklin Part horizon. Boston University had a slight bulge over the Varsity in the latter meet...
...Weld the Democracies." I must now say a word about my own country, and yours. First of all I ask you to pay no attention to the many insulting things which are said about the United States by the Communists and crypto-Communists and fellow travelers in our island. Their interests and their instructions naturally lead them to say everything in their power to make division between us. You should completely ignore their taunts and jeers-for instance, I noticed in the newspaper bitter words from a Mr. Priestley, who gained some acceptance in the war from the fact that...
...Built in 1921, the Bluenose (143 ft. overall) won all five of the International Fishermen's Races. Diverted to inter-island cargo trade, she was lost on a West Indies reef in January...