Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jump; Don't Slide. In ships that are battle casualties there may not be time to lower boats, or even to rig cargo nets. But survivors should jump only as a last resort: a man may be knocked out by a high leap, or hit an obstruction. Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than...
...present all large ships carry a chaplain, and soon battleships, carriers and hospital ships will each have two. Men on destroyers and submarines see a chaplain when their vessels meet larger craft. For shipboard service men "rig for church" by setting up an altar, raising the blue and white church flag during hymns, prayers and sermon...
...worked the Democratic Party around to a position where it must nominate him. If the opposition stands firm against him, the next convention will make a Donnybrook Fair look like a love feast, and the Party will be left sprawling and broken. In this situation the President can easily rig the show for himself...
...British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...
...point of view, is a radical treatment of some forms of malocclusion worked out at Yale Medical School by Dr. Bert George Anderson. By building up a complicated engineering structure of small bands, spurs and wire in the mouth, Dr. Anderson brings both teeth and jaws into alignment. His rig makes talking and eating a little difficult, but he leaves it in place for only a short time. From two days' to two weeks' application, he claims, brings teeth into line as perfectly as uncomfortable months of the older methods...