Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody made cracks about the Navy Department moving across the Potomac into the Army's sprawling, 42-acre Pentagon Building (even Secretary of War Stimson cracked: "The lion and the lamb are preparing to lie down together"). Then some Navy employes found on their desks an official-looking memorandum on U.S. Fleet stationery. Excerpts...