Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Higashi-Kuni went through Tokyo's Military Academy. In the early '20s he served as military attaché in Paris, where he studied French tactics, acquired a taste for French cooking and a French mistress (rumor said she bore him four children and kept him abroad until His Majesty's Government threatened to cut off his funds). Back in Tokyo, he lived fast. He gambled-not for money but for whiskey (i.e., he paid off by taking two drinks every time he lost). He patronized geisha houses. He liked to drive at top speed in his maroon...
...along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
Shots in the Dark. Halsey selected that night for his most defiant gesture. His battleships steamed within ten miles of the coast of Honshu, northeast of Tokyo. As they bore south, each trained the 67-ft. barrels of its nine 16-inch rifles over the starboard beam...
...flyer shot down off Leyte was rescued by guerrillas, and when he returned to the fleet he bore word of how relatively weak the Japanese were in the Visayas. Halsey conferred with Vice Admiral Mitscher, then commanding Task Force 38, and with Nimitz. Soon he was on his way to see MacArthur, who agreed to a new plan of invading the Philippines in October instead of December, and at Leyte instead of Mindanao...
...Pacific, on the late afternoon of July 3, the U.S. destroyer Murray sighted the Japanese hospital ship Taka-sago Maru, bore down on her and ordered her to heave to. In two small boats, a party of 26 heavily armed Americans, led by the Murray's executive officer, Lieut. Commander Robert H. White, approached the dingy white two-stacker...