Word: motorboater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British hurried the weary process of rounding up and counting prisoners. About 20,000 were taken, including General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, the little general of tremendous appetite and temper whom the British thought they had at Bardia, but who escaped by motorboat. Recalling the old saw about the British being a nation of shopkeepers, an enthusiastic BBC announcer telling of the Bengasi victory' exclaimed: "The British are rapidly becoming a nation of wop-keepers...
...Army's secret bomb sight; of mechanics who install fire-control apparatus on battleships; of plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...their excitement, the men in the little motorboat could hardly tumble out a coherent story to the port authorities at Kavieng, New Guinea. They had crossed the 85 miles from Emirau Island, they said, to get help for some 500 prisoners of war, marooned there by German sea raiders. Help was needed quickly. Some of the castaways were badly torn by shrapnel and steel splinters. Seventy women and children were nearly exhausted. All of them were dirt-encrusted, hollow-eyed, half-starved...
Last spring, when she inherited $100, she looked around for something to invest her money in. In Annsville Creek, N. Y. she spied just the thing: a 22-foot motorboat, which she was sure could be flossied up and converted into a profit...
...Athens since Italy in 1912 grabbed the Greek-populated Dodecanese Islands, including the tiny one he lived on. Last week Dr. Vergis and 15 comrades who felt as he did about the Italian usurpers set out on a venture that would have appealed to Ulysses. They boarded a motorboat at the Greek isle of Samos, just off the Turkish coast, and chugged through the night to Gaidaro, one of the islands of the Italian archipelago. Landing secretly, they surprised a police station, captured the chief and three of his men. Discovered and attacked, the raiders shot three Italian sailors, skipped...