Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some who had looked away from the blast turned their eyes to sea and saw a great phosphorescent geyser where the 16-in. projectiles plunged into the ocean. Others, who had traded sight of the great flash for what would come later, shook their heads, rubbed their eyes and began to see again...
...thought you would like me to tell you something about the voyage which I made across the ocean to meet our great friend the President of the United States...
...Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...
...clearer; the emerging cast of characters becomes more sharply defined. The time is the present. The time is the extraordinary present, in which the U.S. now-not as it is supposed to be next summer, next year, next millennium, when the air forces are to be built, the two-ocean Navy completed, the Army trained, the finances in order, the citizen cheerful, self-sacrificing, prudent, wise, farsighted, quick, able, industrious, thoughtful and good-faces a titanic production job for which, according to the editors, the plant is unsuited, the materials short, the organization inadequate, and the plans...
...efforts, from the very beginning, was to prevent the spread of that world war in certain areas where it hadn't started. One of those areas is a place called the Pacific Ocean-one of the largest areas of the earth. . . . There happened to be a place in the South Pacific where we had to get a lot of things-rubber, tin, and so forth and so on, down in the Dutch Indies, the Straits Settlements and Indo-China. And we had to get the Australian surplus of meat and wheat and corn for England...