Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long conference with Krug delayed the President's departure aboard the yacht Williamsburg for a weekend visit to the Naval Academy. When he reached Annapolis after an all-night cruise, he looked chipper and relaxed. Next day he made an informal little speech before lunch in Bancroft Hall. There was a subdued laugh from the future admirals when the President said: "The future is in your hands. . . . Those of us now running the Government are coming to the end of their term." Then, as a raw wind swept off the river, Army veteran Harry Truman watched the Navy lose...
This week, leaving cold weather and warm controversy behind, the President flew to Key West in the Sacred Cow. There he planned a lazy seven-day vacation in the commandant's quarters of the Key West Naval Base. Sun and rest would prepare the President for the stormy winter ahead...
...Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite patience and many words to advance a foot...
...addition to his duties as Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, Captain Carrol T. Bonney, has been appointed Naval Property Custodian at the University...
...coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade of the Malay peninsula and establish her naval power athwart the route to China...