Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there, to "Rube" Fleet's eye (and to the eye of many a layman), is the most dramatic visual proof to be found in the U.S. that the tools to beat Adolf Hitler, no longer just "on order," are at work. In the yard, under the sun by day, under floodlights at night (in San Diego climate hangars are unnecessary), sits a score of ships getting their last touches. And they are not little ships. They are whoppers, all of them. Each represents thousands of hours of labor, each is a mighty ship of war. In the three...
Said the original Rube: "Please, sir, I don't want to have to roll up my hammock in the mornings ever again." He recovered, never rolled his hammock...
Walter and the others on Rube had been plenty sore when people claimed there never was any such hero as Reuben James. That was when they named destroyer 607 (laid down at San Francisco last July) Daniel Frazier. Some scholar had dug into the books and found that the Rube James yarn was a phony; that the name of the hero who saved Stephen Decatur was really Daniel Frazier, and that was why the Department called 607 the Daniel Frazier. The boys on Rube refused to believe...
...saving some of that money in the bank if you have any left.") Not much prospect of marrying. ("I hope it's Lee if we are still going together when I get out of the Navy.") Not much chance of getting out of the Navy-certainly not while Rube was putting her nose into cold waves somewhere west of Iceland...
Somewhere west of Iceland the Reuben James was sunk. The Navy merely said ". . . by a torpedo during the night. . . ." Walter Sorensen was aboard when the torpedo hit. Rube had none of the Kearny's fancy compartmentation; she just holed and sank, and Walter Sorensen went into the sea with...