Word: olaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Olaf Eckstrom had been commanding the 8,272-ton, "heavily loaded" tanker Montebello only five hours when a torpedo ripped through the port side, under the bridge. It knocked out the ship's radio and power plant. In pre-dawn darkness the crew struggled with the lifeboats as the submarine opened up with its deck gun, scoring only one hit (in the Montebello's forepart) out of "eight or ten" shots. Despite strafing machine-gun fire, the 36 officers and crew pulled to safety, cursing the attackers. Said Captain Eckstrom...
...touch of a button her blond, urbane skipper, Captain Olaf Mandt Hustvedt, gave her the works. Her answer was a belching, searing flame, the shattering roar of the heaviest broadside ever fired by any warship of any Navy on any sea. All nine of the 16-in. guns in her main battery, tripled in turrets each of which weighs more than many a destroyer, answered the Old Man. Ten of her secondary battery of 20 five-inchers simultaneously blasted the night. North Carolina took it as it came, shook her head and plowed...
Alien. In Trenton, N. J., FBI took charge of one Olaf Jehovah, who refused to register for military service, gave his age as "eternal," his address as "the kingdom of heaven...
...Dabney Joan Edmonds, New York Willard Dalrymple Christina Rossetti, Rye Beach David J. Davis Mary Marsh, Wellesley Henry H. Dearing, Jr. Rena Zary, Cleveland Wheeler Dennis, Jr. Peggy Lewis, Packer Institute John W. Dixon Audrey Armstrong, Pembroke Donald H. Eldredge, Jr. Betty McClure, Wellesley Robert Ellery Fanny Gassett, Perkins Olaf H. Fernald Lucille Ogden, Wellesley Philip St. G. Field Becky Farnsworth, Winchester Gabriel P. Freedman Geraldine Cohn, Radcliffe Sanford J. Freedman Sue Cohen, Skidmore Stanley A. Freedman Joyce Beskind, Great Neck, N. Y. John R Friar Virginia Ranney, Weston Maurice S. Friedman Sally Baker, Radcliffe Raymond Friedman Elayne Frank...
...Sweden, Göring's man Sven Olaf Lindholm was at last reports still at large...