Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...
...engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
Reviewing the marchers will be Rear Admiral James E. Pine, Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, Rear Admiral W. N. Derby, District Coast Guard Officer, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, Commanding Officer of the Harvard Naval Training Schools, and Deans Buck and Hanford for the University...
From coast to coast, desperate house-hunters crowded into newspaper offices to get early editions, raced for first crack at the few advertised vacancies. They found building superintendents who demanded $200 tips, landlords who forced them to buy broken-down furniture in order to get apartments. Despite a valiant rear-guard action by OPA, rents soared and ascended far beyond the means of the average returning veteran...
...tenor, got back from Denmark with a brand-new Commander of the Cross of Danneborg decoration and a story about King Christian's escape hatch (never used). When he was a palace prisoner of the Germans, the King had a secret tunnel built from the palace to the rear of the royal washerwomen's dormitory, at the edge of the grounds...