Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S.N. Pearl Harbor...
...racing sloop L'Apache, a 73-footer, was running in second place in one of the world's longest yacht races-from Los Angeles harbor to Honolulu. At dawn one day last week, L'Apache's boom tackle broke. It had to be repaired under way, with 8-ft. seas running. Precious time was wasting. Crewman Ted Sierks, 40, an ex-Marine and photographer, was braced against the rail, trying to get the fractious boom under control. The rail broke and Sierks slid into...
...whether you consider the party of the first part or the party of the second part after getting out the current issue of the Lampoon. It was pretty gay the night we put the last page of the old rag to bed. The whole gang returned from Bar Harbor--without tans, of course, except for Joe Klowernig who somehow always managed to do the wrong things. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem to fit in. As the party went along (I guess we'd call it the party of the third part...
...Governor's Island in New York Harbor, Eleanor B. Roosevelt, widow of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., accepted a Bronze Star medal in recognition of her husband's "heroic action" at Les Andalouses, Algeria, in 1942, when a patrol under his command fought off a superior enemy force. This award made the eldest son of T.R. the winner of every Army combat medal given by the U.S. Government, including a World War I Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with clusters, the Purple Heart, and a World War II posthumous Medal of Honor for action at Normandy, where...
...standard practice in Europe for years, did not take hold in the U.S. until the late '30s, after most of the nation's virgin timber had been cut. In 1941, the Weyerhaeuser Co. took the first big step; it laid out the first tree farm in Grays Harbor County, Wash...