Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the British were able to report that there had not been a single alarm over London in the month of August. During the week only two British towns, Hull and Newcastle, were bombed. But over Germany, day and night, the R.A.F. stung scores of cities with hundreds of planes at a time. Berlin suffered what the censor agreed was "one of the liveliest raids of the war." This week the British gave Berlin what they said was the heaviest. Such heavy raids could not be without cost. And this week London reported two Flying Fortresses missing -the first...
Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Mexico three years ago. The U.S. was content to exchange notes. Stern old Secretary of State Cordell Hull suggested last year that an impartial arbitration commission be set up, "with authority ... to make certain that adequate and effective compensation shall promptly be paid." Mexico refused, on the ground that it was a domestic, not an international, question. There the matter still rested last week...
Back at his embassy, Admiral Nomura discovered he had walked off with Judge Hull's hat, left his own. A messenger was hastily dispatched to the State Department to exchange hats. It was all right: Cordell Hull had carried the Admiral's hat away, had not noticed the difference. He was too busy meditating on the Admiral's message, wondering how to deal with a Japan which had all at once become embarrassingly friendly...
...first units of a fleet of U.S. merchant ships bearing supplies for Russia. Some time during the next week or two they will presumably move into waters which are patrolled by Japan. These ships, said Tokyo, are embarrassing to Japan. But to a Japanese complaint last week Cordell Hull gave a cool answer. The U.S., said he, will stand by its historic policy of the freedom of the seas...
...forecastle the observers huddled, backs to the wind, facing her towering superstructure. Off to starboard a destroyer close at hand plowed on in precise formation, grew dim and lost outline as darkness fell. Off to port, hull-down on the horizon and patrolling the area where the shells would fall, another destroyer disappeared except for the slim reaching pencil of her searchlight, the occasional blinking of her signal light...