Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight, one is being wasted . . . They are proud, sensitive and haughty to the point of boorishness with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and Naval gunfire backing them...
...headed boot into a dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want to live forever...
...reputation is involved in the goings-on, which goes to show that ordinary people behaving quite naturally can produce a move excellently acted all the way through, even down to the smallest character role. If there is a central figure, he is the misguided youth--the son of a naval hero who "went down with the Athenia"--duped into the service of the party. He dies tapping out a wireless message which leads to the apprehension of his former associates...
...April 1, 1946, unannounced 45-ft. waves from an earthquake in the Aleutians area brought death and destruction to the Hilo region. This time, Hawaii was ready. Police swiftly called out all off-duty officers and reserves. Radio stations began transmitting bulletins every few minutes. In Pearl Harbor, naval vessels put out double moorings; flotillas of smaller craft stood out for the safety of the open ocean...
...crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down one step to the left to his own gilded chair of state. "My Lords," said Elizabeth, "pray be seated." Then, because she was not yet a crowned Queen, Elizabeth repeated her oath of accession and her promise...