Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy hero of the Pacific sea war, Admiral Halsey hit the Japanese as unpredictably and as hard. Two months after Pearl Harbor, he took the offensive in his flagship Enterprise, raided the Marshall Islands; two months after that, he launched Jimmy Doolittle's Army B-25s from Hornet against Tokyo. "We get away with it because we violate the traditional rules," he grinned, and the Navy loved him for his craggy jaw and bushy eyebrow's, his baseball cap, his salty determination to ride Emperor Hirohito's white horse through Tokyo...
...Arleigh Burke-did. He put in a stint for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull Halsey, 76, died in his sleep of a heart attack...
...concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
...trouble begins at about that point. Secretly, she is not at all sure she loves the man; she is not at all sure what love is. And he runs into a hornet's nest at home. His sister, who has kept house for him since the death of his wife, sobs bitterly: "My whole life, my whole life I gave up!" And his book-smart daughter, blissfully unaware of her own father fixation, sweetly explains to him why his behavior is "neurotic...
...complete flight training interrupted at World War II's end, logged part of his 2,800 flight hours (300 in jets) in Korean combat (aerial mining, antisub patrols), then went through Navy Test Pilot School, General Line School, Air Intelligence School, became air intelligence officer of the carrier Hornet. He recalls: "When I was notified that I was being considered [for Mercury], I was at sea, and so my wife called Washington and volunteered...