Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding Navy aviator, the eldest of five Annapolis-bred brothers, Crommelin had had a distinguished airman's career on Pacific carriers. Since last spring he has been serving in Washington as a naval-aviation expert on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last fortnight he had suddenly burst into print with charges that the Navy's offensive power was "being nibbled to death...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, he declared, the Navy was under the thumb of the two other services, who "may have a landlocked conception of national defense." Unless "corrective action" was taken, Crommelin planned to resign and "fight this potential dictatorship from without the service...
...Five-star Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, after lunching with Crommelin in his Washington home, declared: "He deserves the help and respect of all naval officers." In the Pentagon, there was stunned silence, then a rustle of conferring Navy brass. Hastily, Crommelin was yanked from his job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was plopped into a better billet: director of naval-aviation personnel. It was a rear admiral...
...universal family of whom the head is Christ and the Father in Heaven." The term "first" was used in lieu of a last name since "the earthly father is totally discounted." After christening, the earthly mother renounced her maternal ties (as will future mothers), turned Gabriel over to the joint parenthood of the 75 community members...
Registration time today is 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon for students named Abatini to Lyxor, and 1 to 4 p.m. for Mass through Zyzyss. Latecomers can take advantage of a joint registration from 4 to 5 p.m., but after that there's a $10 fine and Administration Board wrath...