Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreary succession of the ill and indigent have sobbed out their problems (". . . and then my husband died and then the house burned down . . .") and been suitably rewarded with jackpots of soapflakes and refrigerators. There was also a Heart Line, which enabled viewers to call up Master of Ceremonies Warren Hull and promise financial help to the weeping contestants...
...freedom. Of some 30,000 U.N. soldiers killed in Korea, these 7,000 were killed after the U.N. decided to hold out, as an essential condition for peace, for the right of the P.W.s not to go back to Communism. At week's end U.N. Commanding General John Hull gave this sacrifice due measure. The newly liberated P.W.s, said Hull, are "living symbols" that man everywhere can escape from Communism rely upon U.N. support, and find "sanctuary in the free world...
...whom?" Thimayya drummed his swagger stick against his chest: "By me." "Inalienable Right." The U.N. Command, gratified at least that its principle of voluntary non-repatriation would be upheld, replied that it would accept the P.W.s as quickly as Thimayya could turn them over. Then Commanding General John Hull told India, straightforwardly, that he would release the P.W.s on the 23rd, "in recognition of their inalienable right of freedom of choice." Retention of the P.W.s, as Nehru demanded, would "negate the very principle of human rights for which so many men of this Command have fought and died." Peking also...
Nautilus. By Rickover's hard-driving methods and the work of his equally hard-working staff, the nuclear submarine (named Nautilus* almost by necessity) made spectacular progress. The hull and the radical propulsion system were designed simultaneously. Most iffy item, of course, was the nuclear reactor itself...
Next morning, after a dawn serenade, the visiting couple attended church, then boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...