Word: overboard
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Each man was tagged with a piece of white cardboard from a compartmented box. "When we run out of tags we know we've got a shipload," one doctor explained. Each wounded man's clothes are thrown overboard. He is refitted with fresh dungarees when he goes ashore...
...Royal Canadian Navy solemnly passed a word of warning to bearded sailors and sailors who had thought of growing beards. The Navy's Newfoundland Command, concluding a post-mortem on the sinking of the frigate Valleyfield, found that a man overboard can be fatally choked by a heavy beard full of oil and salt water...
Solider and more explosive matter now has priority over propaganda. But in the fall of 1939, when the war still looked phony, propaganda had priority over bombs. One R.A.F. crewman returning from a "bomphlet" mission shamefacedly reported that he had flipped his bundle overboard without cutting the string. Said his superior: "My God, you might have killed somebody...
...Ohio Governor began by forthrightly tossing overboard the longtime Republican myth that the U.S. was somehow lured into World Wars I and II by a combination of British propaganda and the world-spanning idealism of two Democratic Presidents. Said he: "We were drawn in because we had become of such great importance in world affairs, economically and politically, that we could not escape involvement. Neither Germany in the last war, nor Germany and Japan in this war, could hope to achieve world domination so long as the United States stood strong and free in this hemisphere. We have always...
...officialdom for the coming conference of Dominion Prime Ministers (TIME, April 24). Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, most persistent of Churchill-baiters and a recent convert to Empire, called the common tune: ''Sir, we have no intention, any one of us, of throwing the British Commonwealth of Nations overboard in order to satisfy a section of the American press or anyone else...