Word: yeomanly
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...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...
...antiquated navy. It has two 19,000-ton battleships, built in 1908 and 1909 but now modernized, two cruisers of the same vintage, nine destroyers, four comparatively modern Italian-built submarines, eight minelayers, two minesweepers, some 15 auxiliaries. For the last few months the Brazilian Navy has quietly done yeoman service with U.S. South Atlantic convoys...
...north-county rural chamber, amid frowning portraits of side-whiskered yeoman justices, eleven U.S. officers sat in judgment. Private Hammond testified nervously, lolling back cross-legged in an upholstered chair. He and the girl agreed they had picked each other up, had drunk beers and wine in pubs, had sought the privacy of a bomb shelter together, had kissed. The girl insisted she had screamed, slapped, scratched. But she admitted that when it was over she had wiped his face with his handkerchief...