Word: dockyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists have even penetrated the colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five...
...beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...under way on her trial run. Instead of her regular crew, she had aboard hundreds of dockyard men and technicians. Some 180 miles south of Nagoya, the U.S. submarine Archerfish sighted her, dark and enormous among a shoal of destroyers...
...next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with flowers, and window boxes...
...native seaman on a training ship. The British said that the officers had refused to let a political speaker address the crew. Before the sun went down, 12,000 seamen of the Royal Indian Navy had seized a score of ships, 18 naval shore stations and a naval dockyard in Bombay Harbor. For two days their ships, deployed in battle line along the harbor wall, defied the British. At Castle Barracks, where besieging British troops fought barricaded Indians, the mutineers turned their artillery on the Bombay Yacht Club (the very symbol of British racial supremacy), where no Indian may enter...