Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like The Lifeboat and others of his best works, The Old Man was a familiar scene glimpsed through a mist of tenderness and gloom...
...went down with the tug. The other five crewmen managed to launch the small lifeboat. It, too, soon capsized. The only man who could not swim, Gerald Anderson, 17, managed to crawl athwart the upturned lifeboat. One by one the others lost their grip and went down. An hour and a half later the lifeboat washed ashore and Anderson was picked...
...Heroes. Next day a sharp-eyed sergeant in a B-17 spotted the two life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
...from the ship's sides. Bashing through doors and portholes of the tiny staterooms, others got out-some naked or in flaming night clothes-to plunge headlong over the side and into the water or try a jump to the pier. There was time to lower only one lifeboat...
...British ships blocked the path of the Haim Arlosoroff as it came into sight of the Promised Land. When British troops came on board, Abraham split off a three-foot length of lifeboat oar and fought back with the others. The British subdued the immigrants with tear gas and water from firehoses, deported them to Cyprus...