Word: mares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wreckage, patching her up and refitting her. Last week she was back in the Pacific. Also back in the Pacific, after extensive repairs at the overworked Bremerton Yard: the veteran light cruiser Nashville, the destroyers Haraden and Lamson-all victims of Kamikaze planes. And at San Francisco's Mare Island Yard was the destroyer Hazelwood, topsides wrecked after an encounter with Jap suicide planes...
...Lieutenant Commander on December 1, 1942, Harlow spent eight months in the mid-Pacific worrying about U.S. submarines in the China Sea. He took sick out there and was hospitalized for two months. For the past eight months he has been in charge of a rest camp north of Mare Island, California...
Most of the Navy's big ships have been coated with it. (It does not work on wood bottoms.) The Navy considers its invention so important that, to keep the formula a secret, it manufactures the paint in its own plants at Mare Island, Calif, and Norfolk...
...Grey Mare. In Groton, N.Y., a farmer walked into a newspaper office, asked for a bottle of printer's ink to tint the eyebrows of his old horse...
...Geography books identified the Mediterranean as "Mare Nostro," taught only Italian geography until the fifth grade. Then they indicated the relative size, strength and importance of other nations with drawings of a Fascist-saluting giant (Italy) beside a diminutive figure representing the other nation...