Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pearl Buck, the young mother, was never to forget those words, spoken 30 years ago. But the joy with which she welcomed her baby soon turned to sorrow. The little girl's body was sound and strong; her mind was doomed to remain forever imprisoned in childhood...
Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, 55, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East, has the cruiser Juneau and four destroyers. Tall, quiet Charles Joy is a gunnery expert who practiced the technique of shore bombardment at Guadalcanal, the Aleutians and Attu...
Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, 56, Joy's top subordinate and commander of the Seventh Fleet, an "amphib man," in World War II directed landings in Normandy and the Philippines. Preparing for an attack on Corregidor in 1945, short, twinkle-eyed Arthur Struble was told that the cruisers needed to silence Jap guns on "The Rock" would be late. He said, "Let's go ahead without...
...Yugoslavia, there would certainly be more joy in the Kremlin if this sinner were bumped off than if 99 other states threw themselves under the Soviet paws. But Tito grew up in a tough school; he is more cat than mouse himself, and it will take the Red army itself, not the Balkan satellites, to catch him. (Currently, the Bulgarian army is mobilized and stamping its feet on Tito's border. If Russian forces move in the same direction, the U.S. may have another Korea decision to make...
Ordered into the fighting along with the Air Force were the light cruiser Juneau and four destroyers under Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, commander of U.S. Far Eastern naval forces, who began bombardment of Communist amphibious forces which had landed on South Korea's east coast. Assigned to Joy's command, with the mission of protecting Formosa against possible Chinese Communist attack, was the Seventh (Asiatic) Fleet under Vice Admiral Arthur Struble. At Struble's disposal were the carrier Valley Forge, one heavy cruiser, six destroyers and four submarines...