Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tripoli, Mobile Bay, Santiago, the Philippine Sea, Norfolk and San Diego, the pride of the Navy grew. In intense patriotism, dedicated Navy officers held two words to be all but synonymous-the Navy and the Nation. They upheld one to defend the other-and, after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
...admirals had insinuated that the J.C.S. did not know how a war should be fought and Bradley's heavy brows lowered behind his spectacles as he made scornful reply: "Even if I were not personally involved, I would harbor a distaste for such lack of loyalty...
...takes part in the first carrier-landing experiments, marries a buddy's widow, and is exiled to a desk in the Canal Zone after pleading aviation's case too violently at a Washington reception. Eventually he gets back on a carrier, and he is on the spot at Pearl Harbor when the shooting starts...
...Month of September, it was a subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden with its last fruits in her lap. Ex-Cubist François Desnoyer was represented by a solidly constructed harbor picture in colors as bright and brassy as boat whistles...
Born in the Lake Ontario village of Sacketts Harbor, N.Y. (pop. 1,900), Frances first started singing in the village church choir. After high school, and some singing lessons in nearby Watertown, she auditioned at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, won a fellowship, graduated with the highest singing rating in her class. When she sang in audition for Laszlo Halasz last year, he broke his usual routine of saying just "Thank you" to hopeful auditioners, and signed her on the spot...