Word: lifebelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zamperini, tangled in the wreckage of the cabin, some 40 feet (he estimated) under the sea, yanked the cord which inflated his lifebelt, wrenched a window open and shot up to the surface. Two others, Lieut. Russell A. Philips, of Princeton, Ind. and the red-headed tail gunner, whom Zamperini remembered only as "Maclntyre," were the only survivors...
...weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
Presently the other passengers heard the sharp slap and the tiny squall. Genially Dr. Conly asked one woman for her turban, and in it he wrapped the eight-pound boy. For another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready...