Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motley armada of transports, barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from...
That night, Wakefield boarded a 43-ft. schooner for an overnight fishing trip. After dinner his daughter Pamela clambered into the dinghy and accidentally cast herself adrift without oars. Wakefield hauled up anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
...Jones takes in groceries." They named operators of bulging oil depots at strange places. They told of pro-Franco Central Americans openly working for a German victory; of Germans, including one ex-army officer, busily preparing for Nazi submarine activities. Even in 1940 small fortunes were being made by schooner masters on Nazi payrolls...
Last week the U.S. made a last effort to save the seals. From Savannah a Department of the Interior schooner sailed on a two-to-five year voyage. Scientists aboard hoped to track the migration of 10,000 young seals branded on the Pribilofs, to find out whether they did cruise Japan's shores and eat her fish. Whatever the results of the study, it seemed a slim hope in a world where treaties do not last long enough to protect men or seals...
...Marquesas Islands, the oldest people sing "prediction songs," They saw the Fahnestocks' first ship (a 65-ft. schooner), then the second, which they declared was the first one grown up. They sang a prediction that it would go away and never return...