FILL IN EACH BLANK WITH ONE SUITABLE WORD I think I can date the beginning of my conversion --- for that, as you will see, is what it really is --- to a precise event during the war. I had torpedoed an Italian merchant (l) ___ in the Mediterranean. (2)____ sank in (3) ____than three minutes, but they (4) ____ to get a lifeboat away. I surfaced toll to see (5) ____ I could discover some information about my (6) ____. There were |five men (7) _____ the boat. Two of (8) ____ were horribly injured, and one in (9) ____, a lad of about nineteen, had had the side of (10) ____ face blown away. We gave them what medical (11) _____ we could spare ----and then a German plane came down (12) _____ us and we had to dive in a (13) ____.Even during the depth-charging that followed, the (14) ____ of that boy haunted me. It was no (15) ____ telling myself that this is one of the inevitable accidents of war: this was something I personally had (16) ____ to a young man on the threshold of life, the only (17) _____ ho would ever have. It was my act in firing that (18) _____ that had done it. The beastliness of war began to obsess me, and from that time (19) _____ I could (20) _____ fire a torpedo without feeling sick.