Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passengers safely reached two life rafts they had managed to launch before the aircraft sank. But two enlisted men disappeared before their companions could reach them through the swells. Crowded aboard two rafts built to hold only six men apiece, the survivors settled down to the bruising, salt-sprayed hours of waiting...
Foaming 20-ft. waves burst over the rafts, and the chafing salt burns grew so bad that the airmen soon had to cut their heavy G.I. shoes away. Rain squalls swept past in raw, chilling gusts. Huddled painfully together, their knees jammed under their chins, the men in the rafts rode out the first night and second day. Now & then they heard search planes passing in one of the greatest air-rescue operations in peacetime history, but the aircraft were hampered by a lowering ceiling and the rafts were not sighted. It was not until after dusk of the second...
Robert H. Fleming, Milwaukee Journal political writer; Hays Gorey, Salt Lake Tribune city editor; Max, R. Hall, Associated Press labor reporter; John L. Hulteng, Providence Journal editorial writer; Murrey Marder, Washington Post reporter; Richard J. Wallace, Jr., Memphis Press-Scimitar writer; and Melvin S. Wax, Rutland Herald assistant news editor...
...criticism against the loyalty oath I have heard no student who has singed it complain against intimidation. If there has been any silent disapproval, those who are not in favor have the opportunity to resign and follow whatever policies they wish--we have no concentration camps or bleak salt mines to which to send those who disagree with the polices of the government. Young Progressive take note. Douglas G. Shaw...
Rowe says that the 3½-years he spent doing the illustrations "could hardly be called work. The project was alive." A native of Salt Lake City, Guy Rowe was a miner, cowhand, mechanic, acrobat, lumberjack and bill collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing...