Word: corale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliantly effective man with new ideas. He earned it as World War II skipper of carrier-based Fighting Squadron Three when he used an unorthodox two-plane gunnery maneuver of his own devising (the Thach Weave), which brought down 19 of 20 attacking Japanese "Betty" bombers above the Coral Sea. Similarly, Thach's new job calls for new tactics. He assumes command of an experimental unit called Task Force Alpha, which includes the carrier Valley Forge, eight destroyers, two hunter-killer submarines, planes, helicopters and blimps. His job: to weld them into a unit, put each element...
...wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven-eighths of a ton of sugar a year for each of its 230,500 inhabitants (called Bajans). who plant every inch of its white-coral soil...
...vicinity of the Solomon Islands one day in August 1943. Watertight bulkheads kept the wreckage afloat long enough for Skipper "Shafty" Kennedy, nicely played by Actor John Baer, to direct rescue operations and collect the remains of his crew. Soon all but one were languishing safely on a coral island. But Shafty was still at sea, towing in a panicky sailor who had been badly burned. "He's a champion swimmer−Harvard team," one crewman reassured the others. "Besides, it's only three miles. He'll make...
...might expect, Harvard means a variety of things to people, "an island of light" to President Pusey where he first came into contact with the incredible, if slightly pretentious erudition of ... Harvard undergraduates. To Robert Cutler it is the moment when Professor Copeland looked at the coral pig on his watch chain and said, "Is that the emblem of your sublime little club...
...Coral Gables Senior High Illinois