Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 day that a search-plane crew spotted...
Bobbing Flotsam. Drifting, drinking rain water, munching the hard candy which was all they had saved from their emergency rations, the survivors spent a second sleepless night. Colonel Grable caught a two-foot yellowtail, but lost it before he could bring it aboard. One raft overturned twice; all but two flares were lost and the emergency radio would no longer work. Overhead, the men still heard the sound of crisscrossing search planes, twice sighted ships but were unable to attract the attention of the searchers...
Chanis then appointed a board of four men, headed by the Minister of Government and Justice, and sent them to police headquarters to take command. While they were on the way the President telephoned Lieut. Colonel Bolivar Vallarino, Remón's second-in-command and ordered him to surrender his authority. Vallarino listened glumly, mumbled a request to speak with Remón, then hung up abruptly and set to work. As matters later turned out, that was the precise moment when Chanis' hopeful plan began to fly apart...
...relieved at the prospect of returning to his medical practice. The victors rounded up the Supreme Court, and at 6 a.m. handsome, square-jawed Vice President Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 44, was sworn in as Chanis' successor. Within an hour he received the traditional loyalty oath from his second cousin, Police Chief...