Word: shark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor." Lesley McNair wanted to be a naval officer. Back home in Minnesota he had an alternate appointment to Annapolis, but he tired of waiting and got into West Point by competitive examination. His West Point colleagues remember him only as the sort of mathematical shark that makes promising material for the field artillery. At the Point he acquired the nickname "Whitey," and met Clare Huster, whom he married three years later...
...background are crowds of expressive Chinese faces and a few cub pilots who pay the price of inexperience. Despite the part played in combat sequences by the famous shark-toothed Curtis P-40's, "Flying Tigers" falls far short of the possibilities suggested by its namesake...
...sureness of those hands, and insight into a deeply practical mind. Dixon might have been specially trained for this job. He made an all-important sea anchor out of a life jacket, paddles out of his own shoes. He treated Gene's finger expertly when a shark ripped it from end to end. A superstitious man and an "ardent" spiritualist, Dixon was ready to participate in Gene's daily prayers "because it worked a couple of times . . . and later because it gave us something regular to do." When Tony, who had heard only Polish religious services, begged...
...times when, exhausted with thirst, hunger and desperation, with his clothes washed away to shreds and his skin a mess of huge sun blisters scaled with burning salt, he would lose control and scream at his companions. He confesses with shame that he was afraid to catch a passing shark with his bare hands. But he kept his strength of mind...
...Plot. Hemingway and his traveling companion, Anthony Jenkinson, found in a "snoop cruise" through the Caribbean that a German ship supposedly fishing for shark in pre-war days had charted scores of spots where subs could be refueled "as easily as Mrs. 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...