Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Pharmacist's Mate Lipes was on furlough visiting his wife in Upper Darby, Pa. Of his first surgical patient he said modestly: "He had more nerve than...
LONDON--British troops battled to hold a small but important gain in upper Tunisia tonight while Allied planes and submarines claimed 19 more enemy ships sunk or damaged in the struggle for controls of the nearby Silian narrows, last Axis supply road to Africa...
Florid, white-thatched Chesley Webb Jurney has been a Washington character for 44 years, the Senate Sergeant at Arms for ten years. Sartorially immaculate, he paddles around the upper chamber, beams amiably at all. Amiability notwithstanding, Jurney was deep in trouble last week...
...stake was not only a Senator's vengeance but an $8,000-a-year salary (plus two cars and a chauffeur), one of the Senate's juiciest jobs. It is the Sergeant at Arms's duty, besides hunting up quorums, to police the upper chamber, arrange ceremonies, escort Presidents to inaugurations, buy tombstones for Senators buried in the Congressional Cemetery, sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement...
Abandoning Ship. "If you do not get away in a boat, go over the lower side if the ship has listed. If you go over the upper side you will be in danger of being badly hurt by barnacles [and] of fracturing your ankles by hitting your heels against the bilge keel. . . . Jump into the water feet first; do not dive. ... If you have to swim through a patch of oil keep your head and eyes high and your mouth closed. ... If you have to jump from the ship into burning oil you may, if you are a good swimmer...