Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gave the nation's thanks and Presidential citations for "extraordinary heroism" to the men of eight aircraft carriers - the Belleau Wood, Bunker Hill, Cabot, Essex, Hornet, Lexington, San Jacinto and Yorktown...
...become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying...
Kids in Colorado and Wyoming listened with only half an ear to milksops like the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet. Their elders seemed bemused too. For the Rockies were rumbling with argument again-over the late, grandiloquently great William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody...
Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer's Hornet-based B-25 bombed Nagoya in 1942 and then got lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God spoke to him in the words of the Sermon on the Mount: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which do spitefully use you, and persecute...
They spent long periods in solitary confinement. Finally the Japs brought them hot water, gave them a shave and a haircut, and told them the war was over. They did not know what to believe; they had heard no news since leaving the Hornet. Finally, a U.S. rescue team parachuted down, took them out of their Peiping cells...