Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generally approved was the appointment of seasoned Breckinridge Long, onetime Ambassador to Italy, as Assistant Secretary of State. An international lawyer between times, Mr. Long was third Assistant Secretary under Woodrow Wilson, has been a special assistant to Secretary Hull since World War II began...
...vessel into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
...ever see Mr. Hull angry. One of the few is his wife, Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, who never knows whether the fierce "Chwist!"* that comes from the bathroom in the mornings at shaving time means he has cut his jugular or is thinking of some dastardly tariff provision. Mrs. Hull, descended from an old Jewish family of Staunton, Va., is an Episcopalian, is generally regarded as the best all-around wife in the Cabinet. The Hulls have no children...
...Cordell Hull is the biggest political paradox Washington has seen in many years. With his program in large part nullified by World War II, and under its first real gunfire in Congress, with his idealistic world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...
...Hull's plates give him a slight lisp, often interfere with his "r's," which makes him say "mowality" and "twade" for morality and trade...