Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outbreak of World War I he joined the Naval Division, and thinking that he would probably get killed, married Gwen Quilter. This, he reasoned, gave him as much happiness as he deserved, and her a reasonable chance of escape. And he very nearly did get killed in Gallipoli by the worst of deaths, dysentery. He recorded this campaign in his lightest verse, laffing at his miseries and terrors...
When World War I broke out, the U.S. Government took possession of the Common. A barbed wire fence encircled several barracks where the Naval Radio School held maneuvers. After a brief period when the plot became a playground, the second World War brought the Navy back again...
Livorno (or, as the stiff-tongued British rechristened it, Leghorn) was once a busy port and a first-class naval base. Then, in World War II, Allied bombers smashed its port facilities and the retreating Germans blew up its sea wall. A year ago, the U.S. Army decided to make Livorno a big supply base, and sent a white-thatched colonel named Norman Vissering to do it. He found the port operating at 25% of capacity, the townspeople dispirited and 14,000 unemployed in a city...
...Naval Expert. Though he has been in & out of office for years, Hevia is not a typical professional politician. His father, who served with Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood against Spain in 1898 and later became Cuba's Secretary of War and Interior, sent him to Annapolis. The Academy's first Cuban student, he graduated 126th among 467 in the class of 1920, and was more noted for his "silken line" with debutantes than for marlinespike seamanship...
...Annapolis degree established him as an engineer in Cuba; in that profession, together with sugar-planting, he has since made a comfortable livelihood. His naval training also qualified him to lead a filibustering expedition ashore at Gibara in eastern Cuba in 1931 in a vain effort to overthrow the Machado tyranny. Amnestied, he went into exile until Machado was finally toppled two years later...