Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silvery light. Somewhere in darkness was an enemy submarine. Aboard the Spencer was TIME Correspondent William Walton, whose account of what followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen ahead. The tension grew. A man with headphones relayed an order to the starboard 3-in. gun: "Load a star shell...
...bitch," said the gunner's mate. "We won't get to fire...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...
...Shortly before midnight on the 2nd September, 1942 . . . [German] Chief Mate Munte . . . was seated in his office in the Casquet [Channel Islands] lighthouse. . . . A slight noise-it may have been the click of the door as it closed softly-caused him to turn in his chair. Leaning against the door were two men with black faces. . . . Colt automatics, negligently poised, were in their hands...
...Chief Mate Munte blanched, passed his hand over his face, looked again and fainted with terror. He soon found himself under escort, bobbing over the dark waters towards England. With him were his subordinates, dressed as they had been when roused-in pajamas and, curiously enough, hair nets...