Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willkie, another forthright politician. My respect for him was great enough when he cut his own political throat by speaking for his sincere convictions; convictions, incidentally, with which I agree in a large measure...
...unification became inevitable before events rolled everything under one admiral's four-starred flag, there was no doubt who would be the most likely Army candidates. One was General Marshall, whom Navymen like and respect. The other and possibly even more acceptable was General Eisenhower, who had commanded U.S. and Royal Navy fleets in four amphibious attacks (North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France) and wrinkled not an inch of Navy braid...
...Hellcat is a tough, round-bellied fighter plane that looks like two beer barrels, end to end. The U.S. Navy calls it the greatest sea fighter in the world. The Japs respect it above all other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes...
Down U-Boats. The Japs also respect a smaller brother of the Hellcat, the Wildcat fighter, and a halfbrother, the Avenger, a torpedo bomber. The Germans learned to respect them also in the once nip-&-tuck Battle of the Atlantic. With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk...
...year-old Boss of Manhattan became Convict No. 78,719, was given a job as a gardener in the prison greenhouse. Fellow prisoners treated him with respect. Jimmy Hines, whose grandfather had been a Tammany captain under Boss Tweed, and whose father had been a Tammany captain under Boss Croker, thought of his conviction as political persecution. He began writing a book in which he pictured himself as a victim of injustice...