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...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...
...that's not all." The venerable founder waved his hand, and the grey stone towers of Yale hove into sight. Vag found himself suspended invisibly but comfortably over a long table in the office of the Yale Student Council. Green bills were piled in little heaps on the table, and scattered over the floor. "They got nearly $20,000 last year," said Vag's guide, also suspended, "and we, with more undergraduates, collected a mere $7000." It was enough. As soon as the rushing noise had died away, and Vag was in his room again, he would not only write...
Before that summer was over, the U-boats had sunk 100 ships (200,000 tons) by gun, bombs, mine and torpedo. Cruising within sight of the lights of Staten Island, one sub hove to on three different nights and cut transatlantic and Central American telegraph cables. The Germans mined the mouths of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, laid other fields off Barnegat and Long Island. One of the mines smashed a hole in the battleship Minnesota, which limped into port, was laid up for the duration. Another mine sank the U.S. cruiser San Diego a few miles off Long Island...
Scene I: Somewhere off the Atlantic Coast the Potomac is hove to in a light swell. A big grey war vessel comes over the horizon. Franklin Roosevelt is taken to it. The warship sets its course to the northeast...
Forty Japanese ships, radios blacked out, hove to in the Pacific, well offshore, awaited developments. In San Francisco's and Los Angeles' Japtowns there was no excitement; press photographers had to cajole Japanese into posing in groups around bulletin boards. The switchboards of Japanese newspapers and banks jammed with calls, but they were mostly from U.S. newshawks asking whether anything was cooking...