Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thach's ally and enemy. Sound, his chief means of detection, travels almost five times faster through water than through air, and it plays more tricks than a Soviet delegate at a peace conference. "The ocean," says Thach, "is a liquid jungle. Survival depends on how well we know this environment and whether, like Tarzan, we can tell the friendly sounds from the unfriendly ones-the monkeys from the tigers...
...Navy do to improve its submarine defenses? Hardly hesitating, Thach outlined a plan for a semipermanent task force, chartered to experiment with and develop new antisubmarine defense systems. When Thach finished talking, Arleigh Burke grinned. "Jimmy Thach," he said, "has just made an unfortunate speech. He doesn't know this, but he has talked himself into a job." The job: commander of Task Group Alfa ("A" in the communications phonetic alphabet), created as a Navy floating laboratory for antisubmarine warfare...
...Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy) Did you know Cockeyed Dunne...
...didn't know him as Cockeyed Dunne. I knew him as John Dunne...
...What about Squint Sheridan? Did you know...