Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night, the Sun Again. Darkness brought hope. The men on the rafts heard the engines of a bomber-a B-iy from Hickam Field, Hawaii. They fired flares, saw marker flares dropped in reply. The B-17 turned away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...
...second day wore on, one man jumped into the water, was washed away and disappeared. But finally, in mid-afternoon-35 hours and three sips of water after they had boarded the rafts-they saw salvation: a fat-bellied Navy Privateer patrol bomber roared overhead and began to circle...
Other Japanese saw darker reasons for the U.S. action. Last week Tokyo was rife with baseless rumors that the war criminals were being saved because the U.S. wanted their help in fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...
...hockey game, a dawn affair between Lowell and Kirkland, saw the Deacons win easily, 4 to 1, as penalties kept the Bellboys in their own territory throughout...
Local television audiences saw the Law School Forum make its video debut over WBZ-TV last night...