Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the war ended, rusty old Pat lay in Saipan Harbor, worn out and obsolescent. Soon after, she was ordered home...
Last Port. In some ways, Pat had been lucky. Seventy-one of her sister destroyers had been lost in the oceans of the world; their bones lay in Iron Bottom Bay, in Bali Strait, in watery locations marked simply...
...Diego and went on to New York Harbor. She was tucked away in an East River pier, her carcass decently out of-sight. Agents came aboard her to calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...Navy Day old Pat rested alongside two sisters who were awaiting the same forlorn ending-the heroic Dewey and Farragut. Across Manhattan, in the North River, the august battleships and carriers and the newer cans of the U.S. Fleet took the applause...
Igor has adopted Maury Paul's tried & true formulas: no drinking on the job; plenty of references to favorite people (like Pat Di Cicco and the Plaza Hotel's Colonel Serge Obolensky); a few good feuds, a generous salting of his copy with such phrases-some of them borrowed from other chefs-as snobility, cafelegant, upperclawss, Longuyland, the Rarefied Set. He also leased an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side (Maury Paul said a good address made all the difference). And one thing more: "I think it is very important," he said, "not to develop...