Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands will it fall? I cannot think that the Divine Providence . . . has permitted us to become the responsible leaders of the world . . . only to break that hope." Then, with tears in his eyes he moved into a peroration that the Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead, who have died in nearly all lands and have been swallowed...
...December 1941, just after Pearl Harbor. Frosty-eyed Admiral Ernest Joseph King had been called back to Washington to run the U.S. fleet, was soon to be appointed (the first man in history) to the double-gaited job of Fleet Commander and Chief of Naval Operations. Growled Sailorman King to his colleagues at the Navy Department: "When they get into trouble, they always send for the sons of bitches...
...call to greatness came almost too late. Born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1878, of British-immigrant parents (his father was a railroad mechanic), he was a top Annapolis graduate, class of 1901, who spent the next 40 years learning all there was to know about surface ships, submarines and naval aviation. (He qualified as a pilot at 48.) Approaching retirement age (64) in 1941, he was saved from the shelf by the Navy's need for a boss as tough as the five-ocean, six-front war it was about to fight...
Last week, in the fullness of years, fate overtook Fleet Admiral Ernie King. At the Portsmouth, N.H. naval hospital, where he had been spending the summer, Sundowner King, aged 77, died of a heart ailment. After funeral services at Washington's National Cathedral, with Old Comrades General Marshall, Admirals William D. Leahy and Chester Nimitz among the honorary pallbearers, Staunch Mariner King, who never saw the sea until he was 18 but made its mastery his life, was buried at Annapolis...
...water as well as land, the old champs fared badly. The U.S. Naval Academy's famed "Admirals," winners of 29 straight races and the 1952 Olympics, had been recalled from active duty in Navy and Air Force to try again. They did not do well in early races, but observers blamed it on lack of condition. Last week, as the crews lined up for the final test on Onondaga Lake near Syracuse, N.Y., the last trace of sedentary lard was gone, and the Admirals were as ready as they ever would...