Word: zigzags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said...
...about ten miles north of Pengpu. Next morning in a curious military vehicle-an old rail coach converted by iron plates into an "armored car"-we clanked across the quarter-mile steel bridge spanning the Huai. The river's northern shore was buttressed at the bridgehead with zigzag trenches and barricades of sharp wooden stakes. It had been cleared of all sampans lest the Communists seize them for a crossing...
Travelling by jeep, the five will zigzag between the Phillips Brooks House parlor the Nursery School on Kirkland st., and key points in the residential area, distributing candy and presents and listening sympathetically to requests for jet-fighters...
...eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, a tornado cut a zigzag path through heavily settled farm country and a dozen towns, killed five people, did $1,000,000 worth of damage...
Resembling an oversize Foxy Grandpa, Griffis lives in an oversize, 14-room apartment on Manhattan's elegant Sutton Place. Five bathrooms are done in various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...