Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Iva was in Tokyo, either caring for an ailing aunt (according to her) or studying medicine (according to the Government). In November 1943, she went on the air with her slangy, vernacular American, identified herself as "your favorite enemy, Orphan Annie...
...weeks, British radiomen had been trying to learn how to pronounce French ship names like Georges Leygues (rhymes with bag) while their French opposites set out to grasp the British pronunciation of Agincourt. For three days the Western Union fleet in Penzance harbor exchanged signals-and Pommery champagne for Haig & Haig for Bols gin. In Penzance, huge trilingual signs said: WELCOME-BIENVENU-WELKOM...
...legged Communist named Idris Williams sat last week in a tall office building with his back to the winter view of beautiful Sydney Harbor. Two hundred seagoing ships were tied up there for lack of freight or bunker coal. Australians were shivering in heatless houses. Electricity for cooking, lighting and hot baths was rationed, and 650,000 had been thrown out of work because their factories had no coal. Comrade Williams, president of the Miners Federation, had called a coal strike...
...strikers showed no signs of going back to work and Comrade Williams, smug in his office beside Sydney's harbor, seemed satisfied that everything was going along just fine. Australians set themselves for a long, cold winter...
...Nieuw Amsterdam nudged its way slowly through New York Harbor, and 74-year-old Dr. Albert Schweitzer faced the crouching semicircle around him like an indulgent grandfather playing a strange new game with the children. Though he refused to use English, he soon caught on to the rules. When they asked his interpreter to get him to pose against the rail with the city sky line behind him, Albert Schweitzer briskly nodded his grizzled head and grinned. "New York et moil" he said...