Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could see his squadrons' bombs falling, some near the ship, some a good distance away. One loaded plane hitting its deck would have infinitely more effect. Might sink the thing; certainly would make for a bit of confusion down there. He saw one bomb hit the foredeck; he couldn't tell, but it seemed to have caused a good deal of wreckage. Now if a whole plane-load...
...President or God or anything as tangible as that he was thinking of. It was just something about that ship down there. It had to be sunk. It and a hundred more like it. If it, and they, weren't destroyed, and if their men could sacrifice themselves to sink our boats, we were through. If we lost the war, life wouldn't be worth much. Not for anyone. Eating and sleeping and Mozart and necking and studying would be of any use if someone were telling you exactly what you had to do. Maybe it was that...
...took a list and settled by the stern, but did not sink. The cruiser sent a salvage crew aboard, who eventually succeeded in pumping water out faster than the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, shipped it; and got the engines going...
...Germans were so scared that they jumped right into the sea. The others were just sullen; all they would say was that the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, was due to sink within the half-hour...
...know about him is that he was "of great size" and a "champion of the Philistines." Obviously he was a good man, if a bit unpopular withal. And then up steps, that little upstart of a David and overthrows him by means that even a Yaleman wouldn't sink to. Goliath is undoubtedly one of the most abused characters in history, just because his enemies happened to write about...