Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came Pearl Harbor and a military speed up as the government took over the University. The Navy was willing and prepared to accept the point degree system but the Army absolutely refused, perhaps because the general in charge "hated everything about Harvard." The medical degree had to be dropped, and the five-year planned never revived...
...paid out on Monday, not a dog soljer no more," exults a barrack-room ballad in From Here to Eternity. But a few days later, his mustering-out pay gone, his new-found freedom turned sour, the pre-Pearl Harbor infantryman in James Jones's novel surrenders to The Re-Enlistment Blues and signs...
...frogman been spying on the Soviet cruiser and destroyers lying in Portsmouth harbor? What could he see underwater if he had been spying? Had the Russians (who brought Bulganin and Khrushchev to England) caught the frogman and quietly taken him prisoner? Had they done him in, or had they dumped his body at sea to save embarrassment...
...waters outside the harbor of Rangoon, loaded ships lay at anchor. Out at sea other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon's wharfside thoroughfare, government officials, merchants and shipping agents found themselves confronted everywhere by the cause of the distress. In warehouses, on docks, even in the port health station, thousands of bags of cement were piled high, crowding out all else and paralyzing the port. And more cement...
Some 50,000 tons have already arrived in the port, and ships are standing offshore with more, waiting for berths. Rangoon's ordinary shipping trade has all but halted, and demurrage charges are mounting at the rate of $4,200 a day. Soon harbor authorities will face an even worse problem. With the beginning of the monsoon season, the steady downpour of rain will wet much of the uncovered cement and convert it into solid mass...