Word: mainmast
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...Stars & Stripes fluttered from the mainmast as Italy's sleek new liner Andrea Doria docked at Naples last week with the first woman envoy ever sent to Italy, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. As the gangplank went down, dignitaries rushed aboard with flowers for the ambassador, and 120 photographers and newspaperman, mostly Italians, followed in a torrent...
...said that he was hit by four severe storms; the two worst were off New Zealand. The second storm swept everything off the Miru's deck--including loose lines and the ketch's compass. This storm lasted five days, and several 65-foot waves managed to crash over the mainmast...
...Harry Truman came up the Renown's ladder, the Stars and Stripes was broken out alongside the Union Jack at the mainmast. The bosuns piped shrilly. King George VI, in his uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, stepped forward, gave Harry Truman a hearty handshake, said: "Welcome to my country, Mr. President...
...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...
...swept across the deck house, knocking out some of our guns and starting fires in the 40-mm. magazine. Within 30 seconds two planes hit the afterdeck house, sealing several men to their deaths in compartments below. Just then a Corsair came chasing a Japanese right over the mainmast. The Jap took off half the yardarm and the Corsair took off the other half. The Jap crashed in the water. The Corsair pulled out with a wing damaged, shot down another plane and then crashed. Another ship rescued the pilot...