Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the Storm. The President and his Administration moved and planned, but not enough to still the storm of criticism across the land. "The basic reason we're behind the Russians," cried a major defense contractor, "is that we haven't gone all out." Electronics and airframe experts angrily recalled the casual attitude of Defense Secretary Wilson toward research and development...
...bitter memories until his death in 1944. At the age of nine, because his ardently Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg, one of England's greatest naval commanders, who had Anglicized his name to Mountbatten during World...
...supposed to have them and he finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes my bath water gurgle." On another occasion, he snapped at an admiral whose demeanor indicated he had drunk his lunch: "Well, Admiral, what do you think-that is, if you are still capable of thinking...
Skipper Ludwig, a long, lean, lone-wolf operator who speaks softly and seldom, sailed to his riches through heavy seas. Born in South Haven, Mich., he started as a marine engine mechanic in his teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers...
...broke out, Kay, at 13, had already crammed in six years of ballet lessons, spent the war years playing in musical comedies all over the British Isles. "I was a blitz baby, myself. I lived on rations when I was growing up. The majority of English girls haven't bosoms. I always wanted them and I'm jealous of people who have...