Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor 6½ years ago, the provocation was simple, swift and beyond recall: Japanese bombs hit U.S. battleships in a matter of seconds. In Berlin last week provocation had a longer fuse. By blocking the normal food supply of some 2,500,000 people in Berlin's western zones (see col. 2), the Russians were betting that they could force the Western Allies out in a matter of days or weeks...
...just what the skipper ordered, although the skipper wasn't aboard. Greying Henry C. Taylor, crack sailor and textile merchant, sat in his parlor at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. He had Baruna, a trim, 71-foot yawl, built for him ten years ago. Twice he had entered the Bermuda race, finished first both times. This time, his three sons, all Navy veterans of World War II, were taking over for him. He had taught them the ABCs of sailing almost before they were out of diapers...
...dinner, perhaps in a waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been simpler and safer...
Exemptions: Veterans with one year's peacetime service or 90 days' service between Pearl Harbor and V-J day; ministers and conscientious objectors; married men and "necessary men" in industry, agriculture and science (at the President's discretion); members of active reserve units or the National Guard who join before the bill is signed or before they reach...
...Dunkirk harbor was a shambles of "twisted steel and broken concrete . . . battered quays . . . flaring oil tanks . . . a long channel already littered with ships burning, ships sunk, ships stranded." Shells poured in from long-range German artillery, bombs fell constantly, German E-boats dashed in from nearby waters and added disruption to confusion. The 39 British destroyers (which took off 103,399 soldiers) threw open their precious watertight doors to make more room, served simultaneously as carriers, leaders, patrollers, defenders against aircraft-and hazards to smaller craft. Turning and twisting at high speed to avoid bombs, their roaring wash flooded...