Word: whaleboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Photographic Commissar. Under command of Lieut. Donald Sheely, 34, the Minnesota-born, Annapolis-trained executive officer, Hale's motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
Oxonians take pride in the fact that Oxford won the first Boat Race in 1829. For that race, rowed in long, whaleboat-like shells. Oxford turned up in straw hats, dark blue striped jerseys and canvas trousers, while Cambridge added a gentle note with pink sashes. But from 1829 to modern times, the advantage has been Cambridge's. Between 1924 and 1937 the light blue was unbeaten for 13 straight years. Last week, with the series standing at 54 for Cambridge, 44 for Oxford, and a dead heat in 1877, heavier (by 5 Ibs. a man) Cambridge was favored...
Sends the whaleboat so high...
With three other officers, Physician Sams was taken in a Navy whaleboat one night to a point off the North Korean coast. The four paddled through the surf in a rubber raft, made their way across a mine-planted beach to a village, where General Sams learned from "contacts" that the Reds were suffering instead from an epidemic of hemorrhagic smallpox. (If he had brought back positive evidence of the plague, all U.N. troops would have been vaccinated.) Last week, for his "extraordinary heroism," General Sams received the D.S.C...
...into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly they went down on their knees and finished digging with their hands. Primer cord connected two charges so they would explode as one, and caps were taped to both rails. Then word was passed to head back for the whaleboat...