Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time it looked as if most of the 20,000 would get through. A vast armada of ships-freighters, transports, LSTs, carriers and other warships of the Seventh Fleet-were waiting for them. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, Far East naval commander, held a secret conference on his flagship with the X Corps' Major General Edward M. Almond and other brass. Joy said the Navy was ready for "any eventuality"-which was official doubletalk for evacuation...
Humphrey Heidtmann's decision in the heavyweight match gave the varsity wrestlers a 20 to 15 victory over B.U. in the Blockhouse Saturday, while Howie Houston's freshmen swarmed all over the U.S. Naval School of Newport...
...Pickett puts his wrestlers on display before the home crowd for the first time this afternoon, when they oppose Boston University at 3 p.m. in the Block-house. The varsity match will be preceded by a bout which sends the freshmen against the U.S. Naval School of Newport...
Freshman coach Howie Houston will use now men at 130 (Frank Lombardi), 147 (Myles Cunningham), and unlimited (John Rosenthal). In addition, there will be a 191-pound affair for the freshman match only, and Tony Caimi, quarterback on the football team, will fill the post for Harvard. The Naval School is an unknown quantity; it is a prep school and competes against teams like Tabor...
...Friend, No Worry. With U.S. entry into the war, F.D.R.'s letters reflected his preoccupation with military victory. They range from a 1942 proposal to Admiral Harold R. Stark that naval planners use more ingenuity in thinking of ways to immobilize the Italian fleet ("I can't believe that we must always use the classical offensive against an enemy who seems never to have heard of it") to an attempt to elaborate on his unfortunately uttered "unconditional surrender" by referring to Grant's magnanimous treatment of the defeated...