Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More important, Raborn was a driving organizer, a demon for efficiency and an able politician. He had done time in almost every branch of his service-aviation, destroyers, gunnery schools-and everywhere he was known as a man with a single-minded urge to get things done. At Pearl Harbor in 1941, his patrol squadron was one of the few loaded with bombs and ready to fight back against the Japanese. He was executive officer of the aircraft carrier Hancock when she was blasted by a Japanese kamikaze, won the Silver Star for getting fires under control and repairing...
...Sunday, the only working newsman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was Editor Riley H. Allen. Allen was at his desk at 6, as usual, following a habit of years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness accounts, put out three extra editions...
...Organization of American States, cited details of Cuba's systematic campaign of "distortions, half-truths and outright falsehoods'' against the U.S. Item: Despite U.S. denials and without producing evidence, Cuba repeatedly blames the U.S. for the March explosion of the ammunition ship La Coubre in Havana harbor, has repeated its accusation in Castro speeches and in pamphlets distributed by Cuban ambassadors throughout Latin America. The U.S. put up with such slander, but, said the State Department note in its key sentence, "this exercise of restraint has been in vain...
...five Japanese bombers shot down and another crippled in a single engagement) visited the plant, talked of the need for a bigger, faster, more heavily armed fighter. Swirbul listened attentively. Within seven months the F6F Hellcat was rolling off the production line, the first U.S. fighter designed after Pearl Harbor to get into action...
...live possibility. Hotel telephone operators answered calls by saying, "Fatherland or Death! Number, please." For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. protested Castro's "slander'-specifically a propaganda pamphlet charging the U.S. with blowing up a munitions ship in Havana harbor last March. At week's end Castro seized the Hotel National (managed by a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, Inc.) and the Havana Hilton, which Conrad Hilton operated for its owner, a Cuban labor union. (The rebels told Nacional Manager William Land he would have to start paying for his room...