Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little congregation in the Lana Turner did not hold next Sunday's church service on the reef. Ten days after their crash landing, a destroyer and three PBY flying boats picked them up. Last week 15 of them were in the Naval Hospital in San Diego. The rest were either on furlough or back on duty...
...used just enough water from an old basin to lubricate them. There was no anesthesia. The physiology table used for animal demonstrations was his operating table. Mott would put the scalpel in his mouth and possibly several strands of waxed silk or linen. His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean. The instruments he used were taken out of a mahogany box, the old Civil War carrying case which is now antique...
...Owen Stanley for whom the Pacific's wildest mountains are named was a captain of the Royal Navy who, in H.M.S. Rattlesnake, a frigate, surveyed Torres Straits, the channel between the Great Barrier Reef and the Australian mainland and the southeast coasts of New Guinea and the Louisiades...
Chief trappers are experts and bureaucrats, says Thurber, and gives some examples. Once he tried his hand at sailing and a Bermuda lady-expert promptly asked: "Do you reef in your gaff-topsails when you are close-hauled or do you let go the mizzentop-bowlines and crossjack-braces?" Author Thurber did not know, partly because he just sailed for the hell of it, partly because the lady was so nautical that what she really said was: "Do you reef in your gassles when you are cold or do you let go the mittens and crabapples...
...film opens with semi-travelogue shots of the serene little coral reef that is Midway, of the gulls, gonies and Marines that live there, passes on to the alarm from the lazing patrol planes at sea, watches the huge khaki Flying Fortresses trundle heavily off the runways, the men moving with the deceptive leisure of Americans-and then come the Japs...