Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hold on at all Costs." Air enthusiasts, greeting the surrender as a historic achievement of all-out air warfare, were quick to recall Winston Churchill's remark before Congress in May, that the idea of bombing Germany into submission was "worth trying." Soberer heads recognized this as a victory of air power, but a victory won under laboratory conditions. The island fell because it was possible to isolate it completely from supporting bases on the mainland. This was the decisive factor, not the sheer weight of bombs. Malta in three years of war had taken many times the weight...
...Churchill let drop a revealing remark about the forces based in Africa, the way station to southern Europe, and in Britain and Ireland, the Allied bases nearest northwestern Europe. He said that the British, American and French armies in Africa form "a most powerful and finely tempered weapon." He then referred to "the more numerous and powerful forces-British, Canadian and American-which have formed and are forming in the United Kingdom." In other words, the weapon for attack on southern Europe already exists; a mightier weapon for heavier assault on the Continent from Britain is still in the making...
First week of school is "setting the sights." Men who were bigshots in the Church have to learn that in the Navy they may be very smallshots. Typical remark by an instructor: "The last Sunday you preached from your pulpit some nice old lady came up and said, 'That was a wonderful message, Doctor.' The first Sunday you preach after you finish this school, some bluejacket may come up and say, 'Damn good sermon, padre.' You must realize that there is as much sincerity in one as in the other...
Undoubtedly, the big news of the week was the baseball game between the ASOTS and the Faculty. Enthusiasm, of course, had flared for the game, for not only had the challenge come from the professor but one scholar was even heard to remark, "After we wipe up the diamond with those boys, they'll wish that they ahd been sent to Guadalcanal instead of Harvard...
...witness was known as "Harry the Horse" Goldman. "It had just begun daybreak," he related, when he had found Hannah and Fight Manager Benny Woodall asleep together; so he just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...