Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he lost his sea legs, many stories about the voyage of the cruiser Augusta had been told around Washington...
Then he was off to the Renown, to stand on a stool high on her bridge as the Augusta passed by. On the Augusta's bridge, the President stood alone. The ships' blinkers exchanged farewells...
...haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed for America in 1620, the President and his party went promptly to the U.S.S. Augusta, the battle-tested cruiser which had carried him to Europe. Soon a gleaming, mahogany-trimmed barge from the newly painted battle cruiser H.M.S. Renown chugged alongside. The President shoved off in it, with Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes and Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy...
...goodbyes said, age-old protocol called for the King to return the visit. Less than half an hour later, the President greeted him aboard the Augusta. George VI, knowing the Augusta's sailing schedule, hurriedly inspected the guard. But Harry Truman was a good host, took him below to his quarters. There was a decanter of bourbon on the buffet. There was no doubt that the King and the President enjoyed each other's company: George VI had timed his visit for ten minutes; he stayed...
...from Missouri had crossed the Atlantic on the cruiser Augusta in eight leisurely days, had had plenty of time to ix in his mind the definite offers he would carry to the conference: friendly help in reconciling the differences between America's European friends; practical help in putting Europe back on its feet. But if there was bickering, there would be less U.S. aid for the bickerers. The deal would be: get along together and the U.S. will work with...