Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crucial naval battles in the history of Europe except two-the crushing of the Spanish Armada, and Jutland-have been fought on one piece of water. It is not even dignified with the name of ocean, not even included among the Seven Seas. Nevertheless the Romans called it the Sea in the Middle of the Land, as if there were no other lands, no other seas: the Mediterranean...
...basis of post-World War I performance, the South could expect to see many of its now bustling yards shut down to rot after the emergency passed. But in 1941. past performances were a poor guide. The U. S. was committed to a two-ocean Navy, for the first time in its history. Quite possibly the nation would not soon again let its merchant marine decline to the decrepit state it was in at the outbreak of World War II-80% of its vessels obsolete or on the verge. With both Navy and Maritime Commission committed to a three-coast...
Several "large liners" of perhaps 20,000 tons or more were among the vessels sunk in the Atlantic Ocean west of Portugal, when the Nazi raiders struck the big convoy, after it had been battered by German long-range bombing planes, it was stated...
...Hays has been thrown right out the window of Hollywood into the Pacific Ocean, or wherever they throw misbegotten censors. A riot named "This Thing Called Love" is the instigator of Mr. Hays' demise, and Melvyn Douglas and Rosalind Russell are the main cogs in the destructive machine...
...Bullitt the reason for the intellectual disorder was simple: the U. S. looked on the ocean as France had looked on the Maginot Line. But in speaking of the U. S. state of mind, he brought something into the open-many a spokesman who thought he was talking about U. S. defense was actually talking about what the U. S. felt and feared...