Word: sos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that all of us were trapped down there and there was nothing we could do. He then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After half an hour, rescue workers heard the tapped-out SOS and groped their way to the trapped...
Guest of honor 75-year-old Harry Fosdick sat pink-cheeked and snap-eyed through the encomiums. Then he rose to speak for himself with the familiar, measured voice that was the best-known and most influential one in Protestantism during the 'sos...
...SOS. Where was the captain? No one knew. No alarm was given, no ship's officer appeared on the bridge to give the order to abandon ship or to stand fast. The purser told the passengers that the Champollion was aground off Israel, and that the city ahead was Haifa. "Everything is fine," he added cheerily...
...best hope for the Constitution party is a Stevenson victory in November. If the Eisenhower Republicans lose, the Taft wing will almost surely burst to the fore with a flurry of "I told you sos.' They will say take Ike did not truly reflect the great conservative sentiment in the nation. Yet, others will say Ike lost because he was not liberal enough...
...Rescue. In the early afternoon, with the storm still rising and his ship sodden under his feet, Captain Carlsen sent an SOS: ENCOUNTERING SEVERE HURRICANE . . . SITUATION GRAVE . . . HAVE 30 DEGREE LIST AND JUST DRIFTING . . . At nightfall things got worse; the pig iron in the holds shifted and the ship rolled to port again as if she were going completely over. She hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with...