Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss: Richard Lansing Conolly, upped from vice admiral to admiral. Stocky, straight-shooting "Close-in" Conolly knew the shores of Tripoli and Italy from wartime command of amphibious forces. From 1946 administrative duty in Washington and current service at the Paris peace conference, he was fully rigged to sail as a seagoing diplomat...
Nabetari drifted on alone. He was very weak from hunger and thirst and exhaustion. The sail was blown away in a storm, and he did not know where he was going. He thought he was going...
...April; 1944, there was very little food left on Banaba (Ocean Island). The Japanese made the natives work hard, and did not give them enough food or money. So some natives decided to sail to Tarawa (240 miles away...
Annie Get Your Gun. Seeworthy musical with Ethel Merman as both rudder and sail (TIME...
Chartered by the American Veterans Committee, the SS Mohawk will set sail this evening for a moonlight cruise in Massachusetts Bay. Dancing and refreshments will be part of the evening's program, which also includes a beauty contest and a cocktail party...