Word: sos
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...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...
...incessant grilling, denied all contact with any U.S. official. The Russians held them 14 days, then turned them over to the Hungarians. The questions concentrated on the equipment in their plane, especially the six parachutes for a crew of four and a portable "Gibson Girl" radio for sending SOS signals if forced down on water. The Reds seemed unable to believe that the "Gibson Girl" is standard emergency equipment in U.S. transport aircraft, and that extra chutes are frequently carried...
...commanded Kaneohe Bay Air Station on Oahu. He was eating Sunday-morning breakfast in his quarters when he heard planes approaching. Snapped Martin from the window when he saw them violating the flight pattern: "When I get hold of those so-and-sos, they're going to lose some numbers." His sharp-eyed, twelve-year-old son, who had seen their markings, broke the bad news: "They're not going to lose any numbers, Pop. They're Japs...