Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open hatch of one plane, a man climbing up the ladder was blocked by another soldier. They wrestled at the hatch, lost their footing and thumped heavily to the ground. A C.N.A.C. ground crewman, a tall youngster in a black cap, screamed at the soldiers: "Stop! Stop! You are mad!" An angry red crawled up the taut vocal cords in his neck. "You are a disgrace, a disgrace to China!" Heedless, the soldiers stepped over their comrades still pummeling each other on the ground and jammed into the plane...
This is to certify that Edbury Hatch has served a regular apprenticeship of more than four years with me in the carving business, that he is honest, temperate and industrious . . . A lack of business is the only reason that I do not employ...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...
...Hatch, armed with his letter of recommendation, stuck with it to the last, then got a job as a night watchman in a hotel. For old times' sake, he whittled while he worked. In the 1890s, he got a notion to carve decorations for his own house and barn. He did them for fun until he died in 1935, lavishing on the job all his training and skill, and using his hundred woodworking tools...
...lasted most of the night. Maybe some of them are still going. Harvard men drowned Yale men in gallons of whiskey and then swam in to help out their unhappy brothers. A guy could retire if he had a nickle for every bottle of liquor that went down the hatch Saturday night