Monday, September 29, 2008

Paragraph Puzzle

Read the following sentences and try to reorder them in the correct order. Pay close attention to what needs to come first, and which sentence others depend on.


11. Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief.
21. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb.
31. The Hiroshima bomb.
1. Eleven hundred men went into the water.
2. Thirteen footer.
3. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent.
4. So we formed ourselves into tight groups.
5. Right into your eyes.
6. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
7. I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour.
8. Up ended.
9. You know that was the time I was most frightened?
10. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
11. Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief.
12. Vessel went down in twelve minutes.
13. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief?
14. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.
15. And the idea was, the shark would go for nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away.
16. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.
17. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men!
18. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland.
19. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.
20. Waitin' for my turn.
21. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb.
22. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour.
23. You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail.
24. Very first light, chief.
25. Sometimes he wouldn't go away.
26. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'.
27. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand!
28. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up.
29. Noon the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us and come in low.
30. I'll never put on a lifejacket again.
31. The Hiroshima bomb.
32. Tiger.
33. Well, we didn't know.
34. The sharks come cruisin'.
35. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you.
36. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.
37. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top.
38. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up.
39. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945.


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