Word: warship
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...different articles varies greatly: 100 lb. of crude can be reclaimed from 140 lb. of inner tubing, 165 lb. of bathing caps and shoes, or 175 lb. of hot-water bags. Some 94 tons of rubber gloves can yield the 75 tons of crude used in building a large warship. Five old overshoes are enough for one Army raincoat...
...knew, too who the Man was that the English brought one night to his mountain cottage. Next morning he pointed down toward the valley; it had sprouted parachutes, brilliantly red, green and white. The English said they must take the Man at once to a secret rendezvous where a warship was expected. So the Goat guided them over crooked goat tracks only he knew, crawling through crevices where no low-circling Nazi plane could spot them. After two days & nights they reached the rendezvous; then the Man enbraced the Goat and urged him to come with them on the warship...
Officials and merchants of these British and Australian islands fled in January when an enemy warship was reported near. The bishop stayed put. Soon a Jap seaplane swooped down to take possession and Bishop Wade, like Pope Leo I going out to meet Attila, stalked down the beach in his full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with...
...could identify the targets, whether oiler, transport, freighter or warship. But they were Japanese, and that was all the destroyer's men needed to know. At short ranges, never over 500 yards, her torpedoes shot into the sides of ships that were out of sight before the roar of the explosions...
...battleship band does when it is not tootling and drumming. The Navy told them last week. The 21 men in the band of the Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor, went down with the ship. They died at their battle stations in one of the most dangerous spots on a warship-passing ammunition in the clangorous bowels of the turrets...