Word: knot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first meeting of the small group, Joy named Major General Henry Hodes and Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. The Communists named North Korea's Lee Song Cho and Red China's Hsieh Feng. That day only four allied newsmen went to Kaesong-one reporter, one photographer, one newsreel cameraman and a radioman. The Reds obliged by sending only four newsmen of their...
...kept officially silent about the Red proposals, but in an unguarded moment, Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke implied that the U.N. had refused at the first meeting to discuss withdrawal of troops from Korea. Reason: that is a political matter, and the discussions are limited to military matters leading only to an armistice. Meanwhile, the U.N. is on record with its minimum truce conditions...
Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert ("31-Knot") Burke, 49, Commander, U.S. Cruiser Division 5, earned his nickname early in the Pacific war as commander of the 23rd ("Little Beaver") Destroyer Squadron. His invariable reply to battle movement orders: "Am proceeding at 31 knots." Later promoted to captain and chief of staff to Admiral Marc Mitscher, of famed Task Force 58. After the war, wisecracking, hard-hitting Annapolis-man (1923) Burke became a leader in the Navy's fight against unification. His high service record earned him forgiveness and promotion after the dust settled. He is married, has no children...
...entitled to wear the square-knot insignia indicating enlistment as an Apprentice Boy (rate abolished in 1904), I have viewed with alarm the many changes which are being inaugurated in naval customs...
...comrades applauded lustily and showered Togliatti with gifts. For his adopted daughter, seven-year-old Marisa Malagoli, Genoa dockworkers gave a doll which closed its eyes and pronounced "Peace, peace." For Marisa's father himself, the Genoese donated a grey, five-passenger, 30-knot motorboat ("Fast as any boat in the Italian navy," boasted the comrades). A delegation of Red youth contributed a rowing machine, to help