Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs also had landed a blow: a bomber leveled off in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, and sent its torpedo crashing into a "major U.S. war vessel" (carrier or battleship...
...life jacket would not inflate. Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt. It was still helping him float more than three hours later when a Navy surface vessel picked...
...prayer alongside the transport plane that had brought them from torn Europe. In New York harbor a police launch sped to investigate a rumor that had swept through the Wall Street crowds: a German submarine had surfaced, flying a white flag. What the harbor police found: a Navy vessel, with the sailors' Monday wash...
...ships had paid a price. Five light units were lost, one other damaged. ("Light unit" presumably meant a destroyer or smaller vessel.) Earlier in the week two light units had been sent down by Kamikaze attack. All told, 24 U.S. vessels have been sunk since the start of the campaign seven weeks...
...Dorothy the light opera turned to tragedy in December 1920, when Caruso sang L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy and a blood vessel burst in his throat. On Christmas eve he sang La Juive at the Metropolitan, on Christmas day he was ill with acute pleurisy. By spring he seemed to recover, and Dorothy took him home to Naples, where he died...