Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitchell Red Cloud had become a fighting man early in life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud...
...Havre, the Empire Marshal's heavy derricks were damaged by unknown hands. At St. Nazaire, union workers and longshoremen refused to touch the ship; it was repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained that the Communists commanded both...
...Viking makes no claim to be a racer," DeSa said in explaining the length of time he will spend at sea. It will be almost a year from his departure at Panama till he anchors in Poole Harbor in England...
...meeting was the committee's first since its election on March 17. Members discussed preliminary plans for senior activities during Commencement Week. The Class Day Committee's program last year included formal and informal dances, an outdoor buffet supper, and a moonlight sail in Boston Harbor...
...magnifies the refugee problem. A CAC executive said that although a few of the people who remained in Seoul had mysteriously managed to stay as "fat as quail," the vast majority were suffering from malnutrition. A U.S. freighter with 77,000 bags of rice was already lying off Inchon Harbor. Orphanages will quickly be set up for Seoul's swarms of homeless children...