Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. aircraft carrier Bennington sailed majestically into Sydney Harbor to help Australia celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7, 1942), its 2,970 officers and men were blithely unaware of one important matter: the University of Sydney would hold its annual Commemoration Day festivities, when students stage zany parades, pull off outlandish pranks, and badger citizens for donations to charity. Last week the proud Bennington became the victim of the most ignominious fate of all-capture by "pirates...
Having met at the Olympic games in Australia and married despite mountains of red tape in Red-ruled Czechoslovakia, Champion Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, the pride of Boston, and his bride, Champion Discus Thrower Olga Filcotova, 24, the pride of Prague, sailed happily into New York harbor, down to "our last 35?." Exclaiming on the beauties of Fifth Avenue's shop windows, Olga was quickly reassured by her mother-in-law: "This is nothing. Wait until you see Boston, the seat of all culture...
There are still many in Russia who not only harbor misconceptions about America, but also are unaware of the events in Hungary. This situation cannot be remedied simply by ignoring a conclave of Communist youth. Constructive steps by the organizational representatives of enlightened capitalism and by students, as individuals, are the only answers to the problem...
...Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father died soon afterwards, so his family settled in England. Little Hilaire grew up bilingual, binational...
...became in his early 30s one of the world's ranking scholars on Japanese history and culture. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1939, and the following year was assigned to the Canadian legation in Tokyo. The Japanese interned him at the time of Pearl Harbor, repatriated him the following year; he spent the rest of the war years at an Ottawa desk...