Word: yank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlisted men, nucleus of the Akron's personnel, were to stand rigidly abreast of their skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl. An orchestra of 500 high-school pupils was to render "The Star Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring tackle and up would go the Akron about five feet clear...