Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyers plunging ahead to close range, firing their torpedoes at enemy battleships and wheeling away, their thin sides throbbing, under protective smoke screens. The destroyers learned to deal with submarine wolf packs, planes and a host of unpredictables, including even the need to fight in the old cavalry fashion...
...Pacific, the destroyers struck with all their weapons-depth charges, torpedoes, guns-and realized all their manifold possibilities as warships. In the night Battle of Surigao Strait, they even had a chance of fighting in the old textbook fashion. Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, cruising at the northern end of the strait with the U.S.'s older battleships, learned that a big Japanese force, including two battleships, was headed for the strait from the west to turn the tide in the battle for Leyte. Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers...
...agreed to change her traveling plans so as not to interfere with the island kingdom's strictly observed Methodist Sabbath. Queen Salote made an equal concession in permitting her subjects for the first time to greet both her and the British royalty with a handshake in the British fashion, instead of the low bow favored in Tonga. From all over her kingdom, the Friendly Islanders came by two-wheeled horsecart and outrigger canoe to extend the greeting...
Chinese businessmen, who have streamed into Hong Kong by the thousands, bringing only their skills, have developed exports in amazing fashion. Three years ago, less than 15% of Hong Kong's exports were locally made; today more than 25% are. Moreover, local industry is mushrooming so fast that government economists expect that it will rise to 50% within a few years, and that Hong Kong will compete with Japan as the industrial center of the Far East...
True to the pact in its own fashion, the army soon settled the immediate Communist threat by marching shock troops into Berlin. When Adolf Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung...