Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial Japanese Navy cast loftily about for new coasts to conquer. Having smashed many of the biggest ships of the U.S. and British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans to go for India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this...
Come Out & Fight. In this first complete Japanese account of the battle of Midway to be published in the U.S., Former Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the bombing attack on Pearl Harbor and now preaches in Japan as a Christian missionary, evokes the long-forgotten months when the Imperial Navy was top dog of the Pacific. The Midway invasion fleet that he describes numbered more than 200 ships, the mightiest yet assembled by the Japanese. Proud in the van rode the powerful, fast carrier attack force that had spread destruction from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon. Its bonus of strength...
This week, to the roaring welcome of a 21-gun salute in Tripoli harbor, new Queen Alia will arrive in Libya to take her rightful place at Idris' side. The King's own family have blessed the marriage, and at this point, the word was that even Fatima feels much better about everything: she is pregnant again...
...battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton Copley, best portraitist in the colonies, was a Tory sympathizer who left Boston in 1774, never returned...
...owes its inspiration to the 1941 Atlantic Charter and the declaration of the Four Freedoms. But its very name reflects a desire to limit its aim. Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, who had been groping for a name for the anti-Axis alliance, awoke in the White House with the phrase on his lips. Rising, F.D.R. wheeled his chair to the guest suite, where the sound of running water drew him to the bathroom door. He pushed the door open and called out to the august figure sitting in the bathtub: "How about United Nations?" There...