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101 " All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry. "
― Erik Larson , Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
102 " After noting that Germany’s submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: “For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still. "
103 " For those passengers who did feel unsettled by the German warning, Cunard offered comforting words. Wrote passenger Ambrose B. Cross, “From the very first the ship’s people asseverated that we ran no danger, that we should run right away from any submarine, or ram her, and so on, so that the idea came to be regarded as a mild joke for lunch and dinner tables. "
104 " Asked later how this feat had been achieved, Morton answered, “If you had to jump six or seven feet, or certainly drown, it is surprising what ‘a hell of a long way’ even older people can jump. "
105 " my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What "
106 " gin daisy, which "
107 " A single German submarine, Unterseeboot-9—U-9, for short—commanded by Kptlt. Otto Weddigen, had sunk all three ships, killing 1,459 British sailors, many of them young men in their teens. "
108 " most sailors still held the belief that there was no point in knowing how to swim, since it would only prolong your suffering. Turner "
109 " Germany issued a proclamation designating the waters around the British Isles an “area of war” in which all enemy ships would be subject to attack without warning. "
110 " following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What "
111 " I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. "
112 " THE TRAIN CARRYING THE BODY OF ELLEN AXSON Wilson pulled into the station at Rome, Georgia, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, August 11, 1914, under gunmetal skies, amid the peal of bells. "
113 " of mounting threat. "
114 " One woman, Margaret Gwyer, a young newlywed from Saskatoon, Canada, was sucked into one of the ship’s 24-foot-wide funnels. Moments later an eruption of steam from below shot her back out, alive but covered in black soot. "
115 " Unmistakable and invulnerable, a floating village in steel, the Lusitania glided by in the night as a giant black shadow cast upon the sea. "
116 " It was conceived out of hubris and anxiety, at a time—1903—when Britain feared it was losing the race for dominance of the passenger-ship industry. "
117 " Edith wrote later, “This was the accidental meeting which carried out the old adage of ‘turn a corner and meet your fate. "
118 " The company had a remarkable safety record: not a single passenger death from sinking, collision, ice, weather, fire, or any other circumstance where blame could be laid upon captain or company, "
119 " In losing her he lost not merely his main source of companionship but also his primary adviser, whose observations he had found so useful in helping shape his own thinking. "
120 " There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered. "