Word: kwajaleins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tight Spot. McCloy has learned to gauge how far people can be pushed, to hold out in good humor but dogged firmness through protracted debate. He has a flair for the right word in a tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
...hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
...search and rescue unit of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier picked up the distress signal. A converted Army B17, Honolulu-bound from Kwajalein, was running out of fuel 100 miles west of Barbers Point. In the control tower on Oahu, controlmen listened to the calm voice of disaster: "Number Three Engine is out at 2,200 feet. . . . Two and Three Engines dead at 1,400 feet . . . losing altitude. ... I'd better go ahead and set down while I have two engines. . . ." There was a pause. Then, "Now ditching." At 11:46, the radio went...
...homesickness. But the bomb, terrible enough by white men's standards, had not felled a single spindly palm on Bikini's scraggly head. The surrounding water was still dangerously radioactive last week-but that meant nothing to King Juda. In his plea to Commodore Ben Wyatt, the Kwajalein commander, King Juda recalled how wonderful the fishing had been at home on Bikini...
...night was drizzly and starless, but in the last hours of June the forecast was for clearing weather. By July's first dawn, the blacktopped, coral runway of Kwajalein islet was ablaze with lights. It was Able-day for Operation Crossroads and the explosion of the world's fourth atomic bomb...