Word: damping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time failed to call by their first names the little group of correspondents that has traveled with him scores of thousands of miles. Piped aboard the Tuscaloosa, he posed for the usual pictures, standing at the rail; soon tired, he rested in a chair, bundled against the damp, cold day. Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by. Ten minutes after the 21st salute-gun had boomed, the three warships slipped out into the Gulf of Mexico. As shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers...