Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infantry captain in World War I, Secretary Patterson won the Distinguished Service Cross for a courageous daylight patrol...
Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
...C.I.O. local in the company's Calumet shipyards (patrol craft and Navy LCMs) promptly charged: "Everybody knows . . . Pullman's profits actually were over the $50 million mark. You are falsifying to the public and ... the workers in the name of patriotism...
Most of Beach Red describes the painful advance of a four-man reconaissance patrol toward the Japanese lines, their fear, their comradeship, their gallantry, their courage, and the thoughts that stream through the mind of the narrator (the only remaining member of the patrol) as he himself lies wounded...
...days later Navy Secretary Frank Knox called Richardson in, told him the President was afraid the Japanese might take "drastic action" when Britain re-opened the Burma Road to China. In such an event, Franklin Roosevelt wanted to set up a Navy patrol which would cut off all traffic between Japan and the Americas. The Admiral was "amazed." Stubbornly he began arguing again-the fleet was not ready for such a task. If it tried, war would surely result. Loud, hearty Frank Knox was annoyed. Said he: "Richardson, we have never been ready, but we have always...