Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip got leave and drove up from his naval station in Wiltshire to move into the Boule Room at Buckingham Palace. While London's crowds thronged before the Palace, Elizabeth and Philip appeared at last in public, their arms proudly and openly linked...
...Dartmouth Naval College Philip won the King's Dirk as the best cadet of his term. Then came war, sea duty on H.M.S. Ramillies and a commission as lieutenant aboard the Valiant. He was mentioned in dispatches for good work at the battle of Matapan (240 miles from his birthplace...
...Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
...Naval Medical Research Institute asked for detailed information for its research into "the biological effects of intense sound fields and other vibrations...
...klieg-lighted stage, Vice Admiral R. M. Griffin, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, began the drawing. Behind him stood naval representatives of the other occupation powers, a British and a Chinese captain, a Russian rear admiral. "Lot number one," called Admiral Griffin in a crisp, clear voice. It fell to the British...