Word: sos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosion had wrecked the ship's radio. It was three hours before the SS Hwafoo discovered the stricken ship, four hours before the Hwafoo's SOS brought rescue vessels. When the SS Mouli pulled alongside, a Kiangya officer quieted the clamor of the terrified survivors by warning them, "Don't shout, or they will think there are too many...
...COLLECTS: "SOS messages expressing, in as brief terms as possible, the needs of the church ... A collect, like a telegram, ought to say what it wants to say in a very few words, and at the same time be intelligible...
...hand at diagnosing "trouble" horses. Seven years ago, Arcaro got an SOS call from Ben Jones in Louisville, four days before the Derby. Whirlaway had Ben worried; he wouldn't go around turns. The more other jockeys fought him, the more he drifted wide. Trouble-shooter Arcaro experimented in a workout; he took a long rein and let Whirlaway follow another horse around the turn. It worked so well that Whirlaway (Arcaro up) won the Derby by eight lengths in the fastest time it has ever been...
Track Coach Mikkola has sent out an SOS to all Freshmen with running or field even ability. Although he is satisfied with the current Varsity material, Mikkola warns that "there are many soft spots in the Freshman squad...
...sceptics. The cynics have long been sadly shaking their heads, denying the possibility of East-West co-operation, refusing to believe that communist expansion would halt on the far side of Czechoslovakia. Today those heads are wagging wisely up and down in a chorus of I-told-you-sos. Similarly, the skeptics have long been doubting the ability of the United Nations to become more than an international bull session that discusses, investigates, and concludes, but never acts. They have suspected that the United States' commercial interests would undermine its interests in justice and in the United Nations, and today...