Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army deaths were totaled 216,966, the Navy's 55,896; the National Safety Council announced that on the home front, since Pearl Harbor, 355,000 had been killed through accident, and 36,000,000 injured. The great songs of season were Till the End of Time, I'll Buy That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype...
When she minced into Pearl Harbor, just in time to see war break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
When the war ended, rusty old Pat lay in Saipan Harbor, worn out and obsolescent. Soon after, she was ordered home...
...plodded back across the Pacific, rested briefly at San Diego and went on to New York Harbor. She was tucked away in an East River pier, her carcass decently out of-sight. Agents came aboard her to calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...Church assured itself of an honest, fearless representative in a country brimming with touchy problems. Before Pearl Harbor, Bishop Hurley was the most outspoken interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. As early as the spring of 1941. he made enemies among fellow Catholics by labeling the Nazis the chief enemies of the U.S. and the Church, and attacking those who feared Communists more. Early in 1943, when the Army was faced with a shortage of Catholic chaplains, Hurley accused some of his fellow U.S. bishops of an "inability to face the facts...