Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lowans, ordinary seaman, was in the "pot" (crow's-nest) of a U.S. Navy vessel at twilight one day last week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors, one of them already prostrate from exhaustion...
Japanese warships suddenly appeared in the Solomons, 400 miles east of New Guinea. Whether the Japs actually landed the small forces necessary to deal with the Solomons' indifferent natives and few, malarial whites was not clear early this week. But the object of such a move was very clear. From the Solomons the Japs could push southward to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. They could then use the islands for basing raids against the vital U.S.-New Zealand supply route, or for a naval and air sweep against eastern Australia...
With one other invasion blow, the Japs could grab all they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have...
...They [the newspapers] shoved the Presidential report to the nation into second place, and with what? Well, with the exploit of the Japanese submarine. . . . The object of the shelling, of course, as this network pointed out in its very first mention of the story last midnight, was propagandistic rather than military...
...museum full of such devotedly matter-of-fact observations. In What Are Years are reindeer, ostriches, paperweights, pangolins, college students, paper nautiluses, quartz-crystal clocks, butterflies, Negroes, France, speech, patch-box inscriptions, triskelions and juniper boughs-a partial list. These things Moore treats not as subject matter but as object matter; and she sees in their essential structure object lessons about the Creation in which man finds himself...