Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...weight of its load, R.O.K. troops herded all the passengers off by shooting bursts of burp gunfire over their heads. The 4,000 Koreans scrambled blithely ashore and stood around grinning amiably, while the R.O.K. officers and the ship's crew argued furiously over the snafu and the skipper strained vainly to get his craft...
...varsity sailing team will travel to Providence tomorrow for the Brow Fall Invitation Regatta. Charlie McElroy will be skipper of the A-boat with Tom Chinlund as crew. Charlie Hoppin will captain the B-boat and will have John Newhall for crew...
...caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...
...young marine ran up the road from the shore herding two scared North Korean soldiers before him. When he saw Jaskilka, he yelled: "Halt, you bastards!" Then he reported: "I find 'em in a solo skipper. What do I do with them?" Jaskilka told him to take them to the beach and turn them over to the shore party...
...destination, too, but it was born of a hunch and a prayer. Her captain, Norwegian Scientist Thor Heyerdahl, hoped to be carried by wind and currents to Polynesia and thus help establish his thesis: that the prehistoric settlers of Polynesia sailed from Peru. Anthropologists may argue whether Skipper Heyerdahl made his point, but no one can deny that Kon-Tiki, his book about the attempt, and the September Book-of-the-Month Club choice, is one of the best man-against-the-elements yarns to crop up in many a year...