Word: taffrail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the choppy Channel plowed the French destroyer Combattante, with the Tricolor whipping smartly from her taffrail. From the bridge General Charles de Gaulle looked toward the shore of invaded Normandy. For him this was a solemn hour. He was coming back to la patrie. He had last trod its earth four years ago, when he fled from defeat to exile with the clarion call to his countrymen: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...
...staggered to the side on watery legs, straddled the taffrail, and looked down. There was a boat in the water and several ropes leading down into it. These were the life liners and were fastened above to the boat deck. Halfway down one of these ropes was a woman in yellow, clinging to it like a monkey to a stick. A man with a red face was in the boat trying to help her in; he looked up; his mouth was open and his eyes looked like saucers...