Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Receiving Station...
...influence of World War II on TIME'S staff was plainly seen as one correspondent after another listed his wartime specialty (tanks, machine guns, field artillery, radar, naval aircraft, naval landing craft, aerial navigation, radio, military laws, etc.) and the places he could be counted on for a "local knowledge" of: Berlin (occupied), Normandy ("especially the beachhead"), Bizerte, Hollandia, Mindoro, Samar-Leyte Bay, Cassino...
...good start by buying the first poppy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 1947 sale from six-year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
Last week, Helgoland's tunnels were packed with 6,400 tons of explosive. Birds were warned off with charges of TNT. Then a British naval vessel touched off the biggest bang since Bikini. A sixth of Helgoland slid into the sea. The dagger pointed at Britain was once again dulled-this time, the British hoped, for keeps...
Most of last year's Trophy winning Tufts team has gone the way of naval trainees and other wartime bonanzas on this peacetime sports scene and the calibre of the Jumbo's play so far this season has shown the effects of the depletion. However still smarting from last week's Dartmouth defeat, the Crimson is not underestimating the opposition...