Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today men grappled German mine were bringing it over side but not fast enough. I leaned over side and seized cable to help. Opened my mouth to give orders and upper and lower plates fell...
...hulk of the great U.S.S. Lafayette, née Normandie, slumbering sow-like on her left flank in the Hudson River mud. All over the huge, ravaged hull workmen have been clambering, dissecting the dead thing, hauling away in antlike loads the three smokestacks and most of the two upper decks. People thought salvage was under...
This Above All (20th Century-Fox), adapted from Eric Knight's novel of the same name, asks the bitter, irrelevant question: Why should a young, disillusioned, lower-middle-class Englishman risk his life for the upper classes unless he is sure of a new shake after World War II is won? Like the novel, the picture fails to give a satisfactory answer...
Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...
...addressed it to her, and then filled out the rest of the envelope according to regulations,--sender's name, rate, and address in upper left, and "FREE" in upper right...