Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down with B.I.S. The Norwegians tried to open a hornet's nest with a sudden proposal that the Bank for International Settlements at Basle be liquidated and a commission appointed to investigate its policies during the war-a direct hint that B.I.S. deals have been pro-Nazi. The Dutch and several other European nations opposed this suggestion on grounds that B.I.S. was the first international financial institution that ever worked, and that the assets of the Bank belong to Europe's central banks, which alone have a right to liquidate...
...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...
This week naval airmen heard a rumor about Marc Mitscher that had them quietly simmering. Wizened, solemn little Admiral Mitscher, who has been a naval airman since 1916, who commanded the carrier Hornet, "Shangrila" of the Tokyo raid, who commanded the carrier task forces which spectacularly raided Truk, Guam, Palau, is due-said the rumor-to be yanked out of the Pacific...
Private James O'Banner, a mild-mannered, youngster from Memphis, Tenn., was the first man to get a Nip. His carbine snap shot stirred up a hornet's nest. A dozen Negroes were slain, 25 were wounded. But 30 Japanese were dead before the melee was over...
Santa Cruz. By Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been...