Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From foggy Puget Sound to the foggy Gulf of Maine, 171 U.S. vessels-more than on any other ocean route-used to shuttle through the Panama Canal from coast to coast. They flew 16 house flags, in good years like 1937 carried almost seven million tons of cargo. But their rate wars were frequent, their earnings usually poor...
Enjoying a post-exam rest at a friend's home in Westport, Connecticut, Warner saw the pursuit plane plunge into the ocean not over a half-mile away. Without pausing for an instant, he rushed to a nearby yacht basin, found a rowboat and set out over the choppy waters of the Sound...
More crucial for the N.E.I.'s allies, the Jap would control one of the world's most important seaways. From Java and Sumatra his raiders could range into the Indian Ocean, slash at supplies bound for Suez and India...
...when, in the finest symbolic moment in the book, Ling Sao, cleaning a rice cauldron with sand, felt the vessel shiver in her hands, and ring with the rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien, a Nanking shopkeeper, Ling...
...coming so often, it must be difficult for the Japs to protect their harbors and naval bases. I don't know how much it takes to set off a sea mine, but I have a hunch that the little men are having trouble keeping their mines anchored to the ocean floor...