Word: harbor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when he inveighed against lend-lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1934 Roosevelt publicly called him "old friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said, was "a gilded façade for the old-style military alliance built exclusively on force...
...Germans were adamant: until he raised $475,000 to pay repair and service bills, Shipowner Hasim Mardin's precious tanker would not be allowed to leave Bremen harbor. For half a year the ship bobbed idly at the dockside. Finally Shipowner Mardin's patience wore as thin as his bank roll...
...Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely...
When Commander Schaeffer brought U-977 into Mar del Plata Harbor on Aug. 17, 1945, he was ready for almost anything but the suspicion that most interested the Allied commissioners who questioned him: that U-977 had carried Hitler to some South American hideaway. Schaeffer eventually convinced them it had not. The legend that Hitler is still alive annoys Schaeffer. Its danger, he feels, is that Germans may believe it and sit back "waiting for ghosts to return from the grave to do their work for them...
...Gopher enjoyed life in an appendix. For three chapters they stumbled from party to punch, from dance to debut. Pearl Harbor disrupted things; it made the parties wilder and more frequent. And then they all went into the army, all the bright young men. When they came back, some, like Gopher Marsh, had high resolves which vanished quickly, in an alcoholic solvent. Most returned happily to entertain the same old friends and same old ideas. A few, like Gus Taylor, escaped to reality...