Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apprentice in Orange County, N.Y., didn't like it and stowed away on a ship. He found seafaring more to his taste, and before many years was running a steamboat on the Rio Grande. During the war with Mexico he laid by a nest egg hauling supplies by boat to General Zachary Taylor's troops. Six years later, on the advice of his great & good friend Robert E. Lee, then a lieutenant colonel of Engineers, Captain King bought 54,000 acres along Santa Gertrudis Creek...
...cross Sand River in a small boat. The current is very strong, the water yellow and dirty. . . . Here we missionaries can live only in hiding. Here are many churches, but only a few which are not Red schools, assembly halls, headquarters, or depots for grain confiscated from the people. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon we arrive at the den of the Reds. The sick Father, a Chinese secular priest, is lying on his bed, pale and exhausted. The village Christians tell me that the Father is spiritually rather than physically sick...
...Blame. Morison makes no bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they...
...once, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco found himself in the same boat with President Harry Truman. Franco, too, was being accused by church leaders of violating the Constitution to favor a religious minority. Franco's needlers were Roman Catholics who claimed that he was coddling Protestants...
...successive editions Morison plans to deal with the Navy in the Pacific, where, he pointed out yesterday, the U.S. itself had an opportunity to utilize the undersea boat...