Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regarding the 38th parallel, the status of which has been thoroughly discussed in . . . Washington, London and other capitals . . . it never had any significance. Our naval and air forces cross it at will, and ground forces have done so in the past...
...coast of China was more open to attack and pressure than it had been before. Chinese policy seemed to be forcing the U.N. toward a major political decision: U.N. policymakers would have to decide whether to try to win the war by striking directly at Red China, e.g., by naval blockade and air assault, or to face the certain prospect of a long, bloody stalemate in Korea...
...squad, captained by Frank Scully, will sail one 20 mile race each day in the Naval Academy's 44-foot yawis...
...owns half the town, screeches at the commodore: "You'd better stop mountebanking round this town and clear out as soon as you can . . . There won't be a festival here . . . That's all." Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town...
...commodore sticks to his guns, even though they aren't loaded; Farbridge has its festival, a merry one indeed, and the former naval person devolves into the arms of a wealthy, amiable semi-lunatic. All of which, says the book's jacket, "proves that life's worth living." The evidence may be a bit thin for the claim, but the book does demonstrate again that Author Priestley is a good judge of characters if not of character, and unquestionably one of the most fluent, enthusiastic word-jobbers in the language...