Word: rechristening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horn, where González ran into stormy weekend weather, it is just three days' sail to the Graham Land outpost that the Chileans belligerently call Port Sovereignty. There this week, properly furred and parkaed, González is scheduled to go ashore, inspect the little garrison, and rechristen the base Camp Bernardo O'Higgins (after the hero of Chile's War of Independence). That would be his answer to the British, who this week sent the cruiser Nigeria steaming toward the disputed waters...
Struggling to get out of the long shadow of their brothers' ivied towers up the river, the men of M.I.T. have launched a campaign to rechristen the Harvard Bridge after Technology...
...sure whether he will lease or sell the Humphrey (which he plans to rechristen the Captain John Roen), or make her the flagship of his own fleet. But one thing is sure: when the Captain John Roen clears port next spring on her maiden voyage, Captain John Roen will be at the helm...
...them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little-Womanish prose that led MGM's Howard Dietz to rechristen his friend "Louisa M. Woollcott...