Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commanders, weapons, many of the Navy's pre-war plans and conceptions failed to meet the test of war and had to be changed in the first year. Admiral King and his quality of inward hardness neither failed nor changed. The Navy's judgment of him, of what he could do and of how he would do it, was one judgment that withstood the fires...
...doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom," he looked up to note half a dozen tots and their mamas mounting the steps of PBH. "These freshmen are really getting young," he commented to himself, in search of an inward chuckle...
Along Africa's western hump and inward bend ran a current of news and rumor...
...within himself. And any emancipation from these conditions must be accomplished for himself-by himself. Individually and alone. Maybe collectively later, but first as man and then as mankind Surely it is only childish dreaming that makes us hope we can come to live in Utopia without first becoming inward Utopians...
...Japanese conquered Java in eight days. They surged inward from the northern coasts, took the capital at Batavia, chopped up the long island into isolated bits, reduced the naval base at Surabaya and the Army's mountain stronghold at Bandung. On Java there was no Bataan. The Japanese victory was complete and swift...