Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raft of College and graduate school alumni in the government to draw on for assistance," McCloskey said. "If the program is kept small it can be a really excellent one and a great asset to the University...
...Squeak Emblem. Built by the Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
...63rd International Livestock Exposition in Chicago's pungent Union Stockyards, a gentleman farmer from Poughquag, N.Y., named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 48, took home a raft of ribbons. His polled (hornless) Hereford cattle, part of a herd of 300 raised on his 1,100-acre ranch 25 miles south of Hyde Park, grabbed off ten prizes, including a first and second place award. A manager runs the place, but Roosevelt, who bought Clove Creek Farms twelve years ago, spends most of his summers there and keeps in touch from his Washington law offices the rest of the year...
...single life raft, built to hold 25 people, floated within reach (four others sank with the severed wing or drifted away), and onto it clambered 51 men and women. As water sloshed into the bobbing raft, Navigator Samuel Nicholson screamed, "Bail, for God's sake!" One man tried to scoop the water out with his wallet. For the most part, discipline was excellent, but there were exceptions. One survivor tried to pull a woman aboard, but "men poured over us. She kept crying, 'Please let me on the raft,' but men kept coming. I couldn...
After more than five hours, a 14-ship rescue flotilla from five nations converged on the scene, and the Swiss freighter Celerina began taking on survivors. Three on the raft died of injuries. Twenty-one others, most of them painfully burned, were airlifted by helicopter to a Canadian aircraft carrier. Of the 76 persons aboard the plane, 48 were saved...