Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the big bomber, Lieut. Colonel John Grable Jr. remembered later, he had passed the ditching order back through the intercom: "It wasn't the nicest thing to tell the boys because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
Tony Lavelli, Yale's All-America 1948, 49 basketball star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract: between halves he will be allowed to play his accordion for the customers...
With the aim of establishing a book store to sell wholesale to students in the College, Student Council member Dominque Wyant '50 has sent questionnaires to 50 colleges which have their own student book stores in order to get suggestions from which he may organize a workable system here...
...both last names and initials, and "this is usually more than enough," Cameron Lawrence, assistant to the Registrar, says. Not only was there no room for initials in Albrechtskirchinger's case, but it was also necessary to drop the final "r" from his 19-letter last name in order to squeeze him into the lists...
...freshman, Isenberg played guard and right halfback, but Valpey converted him to the backer-up position in 1948 in order to utilize his defensive abilities. Isenberg was a fullback at the Loomis School, Windsor, Connecticut...