Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those things that could only have happened in this...
Four years after he went to London, Copley painted his great Brook Watson and the Shark (see color). The painting was commissioned by Merchant Watson himself, to commemorate a leg lost in a ship's accident in Havana Harbor. Copley used newly acquired techniques in putting the picture together: instead of painting directly from models, he began with sketches of the single figures and then combined their movements as as a choreographer...
Last week the word went round the docks that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had decided to let the reform I.B.L. die on the vine. Reason: the firmly dug-in I.L.A. workers are making better money these days under more stabilized working conditions, provided by the New York Harbor Waterfront Commission, would almost certainly win again in an election this year...
...time was a stark one for the U.S.−mid-December 1941, just after Pearl Harbor. Frosty-eyed Admiral Ernest Joseph King had been called back to Washington to run the U.S. fleet, was soon to be appointed (the first man in history) to the double-gaited job of Fleet Commander and Chief of Naval Operations. Growled Sailorman King to his colleagues at the Navy Department: "When they get into trouble, they always send for the sons of bitches...
King fulfilled that need. From the wreckage of Pearl Harbor he built the greatest sea-air armada in history, and with cold will and intelligence led it to win the Battle of the Atlantic, break the back of the Japanese in the Pacific. Said his opposite number, Army Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall: "A master strategist...