Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less popular than all this bon-hommousness was Mr. Churchill's decision two days later to call the efficient little' Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, into his inner War Cabinet. The official announcement said that "for the time being Lord Beaverbrook will continue to be Minister of Aircraft Production," intimating clearly that other Cabinet changes would follow. Most Britons hoped that this meant that Lord Beaverbrook was being eased into ailing Neville Chamberlain's vaguely defined position as Lord President of the Council...
...Navy becomes mistress of the seas, the new ruler will have a 165-year-old tradition to look back on. That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol...
...main fleet to go, fight, return: its practicable battle radius (with due allowance for cruising and combat maneuvers) is 2,500 to 2,700 miles from its base.* Such is the elemental, geographic rule which Navy minds have to ponder. By such rules, John Paul Jones in his inferior Bon Homme Richard could not possibly have whipped England's Serapis...
Arranged in chronological order on the museum's walls were U. S. admirals and naval battles, from the American Revolution on, lent by naval enthusiasts, from William Randolph Hearst to President Roosevelt. Some famed battle scenes: the U. S. flagship Bon Homme Richard and British frigate Serapis (1779), Battle of Lake Erie (1812), Battle of Mobile...
Harvard's score came in the middle of the second period when Warren Winslow circled behind the Eli nets and passed out to Ervin who banged the rubber home around Kieckhefer who had fallen in front of the goal Warren Winslow, Dave Eaton, and Bon Cox, who put on one of his finest displays, made repeated efforts to tally again in the period, but to no avail...