Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the crew of the U.S.S. Denver, and after 15 years was surprised to hear she had the honor of firing the first shot in the Leyte landings. She also participated in the Battle of Surigao Strait, which I recall quite vividly, as the entire ship was at general quarters all night, it was hotter than I can ever recall, and the night entailed a good deal of work for the crew in handling hundreds of rounds of ammunition when the ships in our task force opened up rapid salvo fire on the unsuspecting Japanese. In surveying the results...
Down, Boy! In Liverpool, England, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the sale of a toy rocket ship containing a plastic dog in its nose cone...
...Widener Library with a spirited Band concert and several cheers for the team. Led by the Band and several University police who cleared the way, the rooters then marched through the Yard, down Plympton St. and along Mill St., to the tunes of "Veritas" and "Yo-Ho, the Good Ship Harvard...
When the immigrant ship Castel Felice docked in Melbourne one breezy day last week, 63 suntanned German girls paraded down the gangplank. Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the demand of members of a powerful new Australian pressure group: bachelors, among the thousands of European immigrants, who have a hard time finding someone to marry in a sparsely settled land where men still outnumber women...
...Shaw announced, with "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I: it was to be a sort of Shavian Cherry Orchard. Thus frankly symbolic, it portrays the kind of people, the ways of living and the states of mind that helped produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar...