Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search had been thrown off because the rafts had drifted so rapidly southwest after being spotted by the B17. The Privateer's pilot, about 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu, was all ready to turn back; he had gone on only because the navigator had asked for eight more minutes of flight on the same heading to save altering his flight plan...
...Highlanders during World War I, life in Scotland's coastal town of Perth seemed a dull prospect to young Bill Hutton. Instead of going home at war's end, he signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young Bill the Distinguished Service Medal for the capture...
...seconds held up their hands. It was Spano's turn. "The ecclesiastical authorities," he said, "should condemn your truly satanic pride . . . You speak of ... spiritual values, but side with the capitalism of America . . . Your teacher, Jesus Christ [he gulped and began again]-Our teacher, Jesus Christ, said that his kingdom was not of this world . . . the fact is that the church has betrayed the Gospel ... in its humanitarian and social aspect...
...Palestine. On the northern front, where Israel's army still held a strip of Lebanon, Arab villagers were doing a brisk business with Jewish troops in nylons and wrist watches smuggled from Beirut. Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that he had been skipped in Israel's recent census...
Things settled back down to their casual pace after this, as the Crimson's Larry Ward beat teammate Hoelzer, who in turn beat Pelletier of Tech. Then Ted Norris swam away from two Engineers who had lapped Brown's best swimmers last week in the 440-yd. breaststroke, and Hull, Killoran, Lange, and Tolf made an easy affair...