Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team is composed almost entirely of former college players now taking their Naval training here at Harvard. Jack Davis. Co.C. who once played for Dartmouth, Ed Donovan who played with Holy Cross, Cliff Hoffman who was with the basketball team from the University of Michigan, Sallie Nechtem who played with Boston U., Johnnie Pauler from Carrol College, Frank Smith from Penn State, Howie Vocke from St. Johns University, and Dick Yeager from Michigan Normal make up the entire team...
Saturday night the Columbia five will journey to Princeton to tackle the Orange and Black. The Lions' new coach Cliff Battles was an interested spectator at the Indian-Tiger fray last week and picked up a few pointers on the methods his current opponents...
...enlist without knowing how or when the present semester would end. From patting them on the head with one hand and handing them a commission with the other, the government had changed to a policy of crating them all in one box to be shoved off the cliff at some indeterminate date. The closing of the various reserves and Specialists' Corps should have been synchronized with the announcement of plans for the future. Because of the anarchy it has fostered, the government's sudden action only assured that the wrong men enlisted in the wrong services...
...swam out to this boat, kicking off my tunic, and caught hold of a rope. There was a guy hanging to each of my legs and I couldn't move. I was pretty goofy myself by then. The Jerries were firing at us from the top of the cliff and lots of the fellows were getting wounded all over again...
...right out through that hole. Another gunboat came steaming in and picked me up. They laid me beside an Oerlikon gun and the row was awful. Jeeze, that gun left me in a daze, and I passed out. About 4 p.m. I woke up, seeing the top of a cliff. I asked one of the gunners: "Holy Jesus, we're pretty near home?" He said: "Home be b- we're still at Dieppe...