Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stunned." Once he started shooting, Halsey won most of his arguments. But many an expert will continue to differ with certain Halsey tactics defended in his Story. Example: the famous Battle for Leyte Gulf in October 1944, where some critics claim that the Japanese decoyed Halsey out of position. On that occasion Admiral Nimitz bluntly radioed to ask where Halsey's battleships were. Says Halsey: "I was as stunned as if I had been struck in the face. The paper rattled in my hands. I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something that...
...striking aspects of the University's finances is the variety and number of different securities they encompass. It would be difficult for a student to make a purchase without some fraction of his money finding its way back, eventually, to 24 Milk Street. If he buys gasoline, whether Shell, Gulf, Standard, or Sinclair, he is contributing to Harvard dividends. Every time he buys Ivory Soap, Diamond Matches, Carnation Milk, Kodak Film, or Gillette Razor Blades, Harvard gets more money. He can hardly buy a drink without adding a trickle to a stream of dividends that totaled $6,665,149 last...
...alert reporter, however, discovered that in Australia the snoek is called barra-couta. He raced to a natural history museum. Ah, yes, said a learned authority there, the South African snoek (not to be confused with the basslike Gulf of Mexico snook or robalo) is indeed a barra-couta, a cousin of the mild-mannered mackerel and no relation to the barbarous barracuda...
YOUR ISSUE OF SEPT. 29 GROSSLY EXAGGERATES HURRICANE VISIT TO MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. YOUR STORY, APPARENTLY BASED ON ERRONEOUS NEWS DISPATCHES, HAS ADDED TO NATIONWIDE CONCERN FOR OUR PEOPLE WHO, EXCEPT FOR SMALL LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS ESPECIALLY TO BUILDINGS IN CERTAIN AREAS SOUTH OF THE BEACH BOULEVARDS, ARE MUCH ALIVE...
...Baltic. We can oppose Russia only when we are free in the West. [France had not then been overrun, and Hitler was still thinking of trying to cross the Channel.] Further, Russia is striving to increase her influence on the Balkans and is striving toward the Persian Gulf. That is also the goal of our foreign policy...