Word: jonahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supporting Evidence. In Manhattan. Edna Dessau, shot and severely wounded last year by one Dr. Samuel Weinrib, told Judge Jonah Goldstein that she did not care about prosecuting the doctor; she merely wanted the return of her prewar girdle, through which the bullet passed. Judge Goldstein refused on the ground that the girdle was state's evidence...
...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...
Believing her doomed, her unhurt 39-man crew pulled off, beefing at her as a Jonah (on this her maiden northbound voyage-motors dead off Punta del Este; motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival...
...colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting to see whether, among other things, he would keep his post-waiting for London to make up its mind...
...vindicate the story of Jonah and the whale, Chicago's Pharmacology Professor Eugene Maximilian Karl Ceiling crawled through the gullet of a dead cetacean to prove it could be done. "It was a pretty slimy trip," he said last week, "but there was plenty of room...