Word: yeomanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undisputed,--Yeoman Brill. Ensign H.S. Bailey...
Three weeks after blonde, attractive Helen Hall, 22, joined the WAVES, her husband enlisted in the Navy. Helen became a yeoman, 3rd class, her husband a seaman. Last week in San Diego WAVE Hall announced she had been given an honorable discharge "because one of my superior officers became worried" over a new kind of social anomaly: marriage between two sailors. (Navy regulations exclude women whose husbands hold lesser rank.) Ex-WAVE Hall told her story to a WAAC recruiting office, was promptly enlisted...
...chaplain, he had never closed his door except when a caller wished. Men came in at all hours to discuss personal or family problems-or perhaps just to chat. Chaplain Williams had, to follow up many of these visits by correspondence with families or relief agencies. He kept one yeoman typing all the time. The Chaplain's activities ranged from running the Wasp's athletics, film shows, library and newspaper, to defending men in court-martial...
...yeoman of the new flagship-now that the Wasp was doomed -scrawled nervous notes in the Quartermaster's Log. At 3:14 he wrote: "Wasp abandoning ship; various ships picking up men." Destroyers had crept near, risking fire from burning gasoline on the water. They saved 90% of the Wasp's crew...
Least-known of the Green starters is quarterback John Burroughs, a Sophomore who weighs 215 and towers six feet, two inches above terra firma. He is a good blockers, but hasn't had too much experience. And Freshmen Larry Bartnick, Dale Armstrong, and Jack Sayers, all of whom did yeoman work against little Miami of Ohio, round out the Green backs, a formidable set of pigskin toters...