Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vessel of the group able to navigate by itself on the high seas, is 155 ft. long and can carry about 200 infantrymen in an attack. Its crew and command are similar to those of the LST; officers and men on both develop great esprit de corps, become inordinately fond of their strange craft, and look with pained incredulity on finical civilians who consider the ships something less than yare and yachtlike...
Bugs in the Belfry Sirs: The cockroach that invaded The Bronx (TIME, Aug. 2) not only flies and is fond of beer, but is equally fond of rayon, insulation from wires and the goo from radio resistors...
Temperamentally and physically he is a product of Russia, huge and ebullient, fond of liquor, fond of women, a hearty man after the Muscovite heart. Militarily, he is a product of the Soviet system. He learned his fighting in World War I, in the civil wars of 1918-20 and in the Russo-Polish campaign of 1920. In Frunze Military Academy, nursery of Soviet generals, he studied tank and air warfare. The priestly-looking Rokossovsky fought in the great battle of Smolensk in July 1941, which was a Pyrrhic victory for the Germans. He learned the essence of German tactics...
TIME's General Manager is fond of saying that magazines are like people: they are born and they die, and those live longest which most readily adapt themselves to their times. We like to think that TIME has changed and grown with the world it has reported for twenty years-and twenty years from now I will be very much surprised if our table of contents is not quite different...
That's what we're learning in the Navy. But we're especially fond of the extracurricular activities...