Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...looked back over my shoulder and saw a great red sheet of flame with smoky edges hanging in the sky above our stern. I once more struggled to my feet, just in time to be thrown over by the second torpedo which hit us amidships. . . . Somebody said "Put your arm around my neck," and we all trooped...
...boat in the water and several ropes leading down into it. These were the life liners and were fastened above to the boat deck. Halfway down one of these ropes was a woman in yellow, clinging to it like a monkey to a stick. A man with a red face was in the boat trying to help her in; he looked up; his mouth was open and his eyes looked like saucers...
...remember being pinned between the gunwale of the lifeboat and a rope which was held taut across my chest. The davits were within a few feet. Beneath me was a tangled mass of ropes, oars, iron and foaming water. I saw the red-faced man disappear into this turmoil, and then I was in it myself. There was a roar of rushing water, which almost but not quite obliterated the noise of screaming...
...everything was heaven. We talked most of the night. I think all of us were a little chary of closing our eyes. I know that I was for one. Whenever I tried to sleep I saw the Yorkshire slipping back, saw the staring eyes and open mouth of the red-faced man as he disappeared beneath that foaming mass of tangled ropes and wreckage...
...Hear from and (barring miracles) vote more money to the Dies Committee, whose Red-finding Chairman Martin Dies last week was in a knockdown fight with minority committeemen. Issue: whether to include Franklin Roosevelt in the committee's wondrous list of Communist tools...