Word: zigzags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into one more or less continuous river which cut a new route winding northward in and around obstructions caused by glacial deposits. Today, it pursues a zigzag path from Hopkin to past Cambridge and into Boston Bay, hitting twenty-eight towns and cities along its whole course...
...cavernous studio, it glared down on a drawing board where a heavyset, black-haired man put careful strokes on a paneled page. He ignored the accusing clock at his back, but sometimes paused for sips of coffee. Once he dozed off, and his 'pen scratched a crazy zigzag down the sheet. It was daylight when Milton Caniff took off his glasses, pushed his work away and stumbled...
...nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees...
...court-martial found McVay guilty of negligence in failing to follow a zigzag course, but the sentence (that he be dropped a hundred names in the list for promotions) was remitted. He had been "restored to duty"-of an unspecified nature...
...thing: guilty. On one of the two counts, "culpable inefficiency" (failure to abandon ship promptly) in the torpedoing of his ship, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the court had acquitted Captain Charles B. McVay III, U.S.N. But the court's silence on the charge of "negligence" (in his failure to zigzag his ship) meant that on that count the court had found McVay guilty. Last week, as the Navy prepared to review its court's findings, McVay faced a bleak future...