Word: anchored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shadow. As a sign that the U.S. was now talking turkey, when that kind of talk was necessary, the giant aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a heavily gunned, six-ship escort lay at anchor last week almost in the shadow of Italy's Mt. Vesuvius (see cut). They would move on, in reply to a Greek invitation, to the port of Piraeus four days after the Greek plebiscite Sept. 1 (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Look, son Elliott took readers on a tour of the U.S.S. Augusta, at anchor in Argentia Bay, where F.D.R. and Churchill met to frame the Atlantic Charter. Excerpt: "Churchill's neck reddened, he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the dominions...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
First Watch exasperatingly keeps promising that McFee will soon swallow the anchor and embark on his great American adventure. Yet just as he finally does sail for the States (where he wrote most of his 23 books, and where he is still living and working, at 66, as a book reviewer for the New York Sun), McFee ends his story. When he daydreams of gimbal lamps and fiddley gratings, he illustrates his abiding fault: maundering. But when he describes a desperate journey on a sinking ship, he exemplifies his talent for hard factuality in a handsome style...
...Century France hailed the religious procession, a war-delayed commemoration of the Virgin's 1,300th anniversary. The faithful were as reverent now as on that miraculous Sunday in 638 when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...