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Formerly the nation's only starboard stroked crew, Old Nasau has this year returned to more orthodox ways, will rely on outdistancing the opposition, not confusing them...
Which is the left side of a clock? Looking from the front, the steering wheel of a car is on the right side; the starboard running light of a ship is on the left. To determine the "side" of anything else, you look at it from behind or, really, you consider the object's own viewpoint. Why slight the clock...
...been offered the same salary to work in the New York office. Ingersoll had insisted, to outsiders, that he was purging his staff of Communist-liners. But Murray, who became National Guild president in 1941 on a drive-the-Commies-out platform (and whose politics is several degrees to starboard of Ingersoll's), guessed that he had not followed Ingersoll's party line enthusiastically enough. Said he last week: "I'm going to take PM's prospectus, particularly that part about not 'pushing other people around,' and rub it under Ingersoll's nose...
...Captain Alfred H. Rooks reluctantly gave the order to abandon ship. Before it could be executed he was killed. Another torpedo struck home. The Houston lay dead in the water. For a few minutes she heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...
Skipper McVay was asleep in his sea cabin 20 feet from the bridge and wearing only his pajama tops when two torpedoes* struck the cruiser's starboard side, forward, and touched off a magazine. He ordered the navigator to send out a distress report, with the ship's position, then ran back to his cabin for his clothes...