Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
...report that a sign in Norfolk reads "Sailors and Dogs Keep Out" is not true. But until Norfolk had been brought back to the state of respectability it now enjoys, the story did indicate the pitch of civilian indignation over what war had done to the town...
...darkness of Arctic winter, the cruisers Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield had first sighted the Scharnhorst steering for a Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers...
...enough to make a cat laugh. Old sea dogs were laughing too. But the sick citizens of nautical Norfolk, Va. could see nothing funny about a three-day fever followed by a cold, clammy feeling and nausea. They began getting it last month. The name with which Navy doctors dismissed the ailment-"cat fever"-gave Norfolk folks the creeps...
This Camp Thomas team is embodying a last year's tradition that service basket-ball squads are good teams. With the possible exception of Illinois' "Whiz Kids," the post-Olympic Norfolk Naval Training Station team and the college all-star Great Lakes squad were the best in the nation...