Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Satisfied that he was limbered up Mr. Durrance . . . broke into a major theme of astonishing virtuosity: an outboard motorboat is drifting in a rock-girt bay, with no other sounds than the slap of waves on the hull and the seething wind. Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether...
...except ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, now in his fifth month at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital...
John Foster Dulles, Republican internationalist who, as Tom Dewey's representative, enabled Cordell Hull to take Dumbarton Oaks out of politics, made his principal pre-San Francisco speech in Manhattan. He demanded that the San Francisco Conference make two essential improvements on the Dumbarton Oaks plan-which he called a plan without a soul. "My first proposal," said he, "is that the organization should be infused with an ethical spirit, the spirit of justice. . . . The charter should require the new organization, as its first order of business, to undertake the difficult but essential task of developing conceptions of justice...
...Cordell Hull, 73, who quit his $15,000-a-year job as Secretary of State because of ill health, landed on another Government payroll. As long as he was working for the Government, ex-Captain Hull of the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (which saw service as a pacification force in Cuba) had declined to accept his over-age-65 pension. But after his resignation, Hull applied, now receives his $75 a month along with almost 130,000 other Spanish-American War veterans...
Objective, Burma! (ErrolFlynn, Henry Hull; TIME...