Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to have done fairly well; that is as far as anyone would go. But unofficial reports from the Mediterranean theater have suggested that the top air command was not altogether satisfied with the 99th's performance; there was said to be a plan some weeks ago to attach it to the Coastal Air Command, in which it would be assigned to routine convoy cover...
...chose the Navy as a career so that he could "return Commodore Perry's visit." After graduation from Japan's Naval Academy in 1904, he fought as an ensign in the Russo-Japanese War aboard Admiral Togo's flagship, the Mikasa. In 1925 he was naval attaché in Washington; in 1934, Japan's delegate at the naval conference in London, where he urged the abolition of restrictions on naval building. While in London he was made a vice admiral; later he became Vice Minister of the Navy, then Chief of the Navy Aviation Department, finally...
...inside view of Japan at war. As an Argentine commercial attaché, 33-year-old Ramón Muñiz Lavalle was in Hong Kong when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He went to Tokyo just before Bataan fell. From the streets of the Japanese capital, he saw Doolittle's raiders swoop low over the housetops a year ago (see p. 30). Japanese officials received him and confided in him as a representative of a "cooperating" nation. But Lavalle himself was not neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left...
...begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...Alphand has only recently turned professional. Before the war she was prominent in Paris society; she is the wife of Herve Alphand, former Treasury attaché of the Vichy Government in Washington. Her father, Rober-Raynaud, founded La Dépêche Marocaine, the first French daily newspaper in Morocco. When the Alphands arrived in the U.S. three years ago, Herve Alphand said: "In France now there are only two things to do: to work and to be silent. I have come here to work and to be silent." But he did not stay silent long. Less than...