Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creditor can charge a soldier or sailor more than 6% interest, even on old loans made at a higher figure...
...favor of the late Dutch Admiral K. W. F. M. Doorman. In two Satevepost articles innocently entitled What Our Navy Learned in the Pacific and Amphibious War Against Japan, Admiral Hart loosed his pent-up feelings about the Army in terms so thinly veiled that no soldier or sailor could miss his point...
...thinks about is getting his chickens home," said Admiral Boddam-Whetham's brother, an official in the British fuel ministry (three other brothers died in the army in World War I). "Being a sailor, he fears fog and ice more than any U-boat or Focke-Wulf. He is very reserved and hates to talk about himself...
...basket on arm, he did his own marketing. Behind him were almost 40 years in the navy as commander of various destroyers and of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks after retirement he was back in uniform, assigned chiefly to duty on the perilous Arctic convoy route, where his sailor's fear of fog and ice found ample justification...
First star was the sailor: Gunner's Mate Second Class Mel Van Keuren, wounded at Pearl Harbor, where he was the first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...