Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huddled within the circumference of a broken coral ring, a detachment of white-clad U.S. sailors last week went through a time-honored ceremony. The bugles blared "To the Colors," the flag was run up, the watch posted. The Navy's new station on the Midway Islands, first pier in the tenuous 5,860-mile water bridge between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, was in com mission...
Beyond Wake lies the next pier in the Pacific bridge - Guam, which Congress long refused to fortify for fear of offending Japan. Today Guam less than 1,500 miles from Japan, is being outfitted as another of the U.S.'s intermediate Pacific air stations, and an advanced Fleet base to boot...
...mystical pattern" which O'Neill is striving for, however, was brilliantly achieved by Donna Smith as Margaret, in the pier scene of the Prologue, and again by Margaret Ragan, as the prostitute Cybel, in her first scene with Anthony. The staging of Sanders was ingeniously worked out by John Holabird '41 and Howard Turner '41, in three raised platforms with black curtain backdrops...
...President could thus add 39 Danish ships to the U.S.-British merchant marine; later he could commandeer some 20 or 30 Belgian, Netherlands, Rumanian and French ships, including the 83,423-ton Normandie, now quietly rusting at her 48th Street pier in Manhattan...
...Narrows of New York Harbor one drizzly morning this week stood a hulking grey battleship. Convoyed by Coast Guard craft, she cast anchor at the Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...