Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which visited Annapolis, was received by President Hoover. As naval attaché in Washington (1920-23), he assisted at the Washington Conference and was all tact. He always remembered Americans' birthdays, and always remembered to tell the story of the little cemetery in Japan where some shipwrecked U.S. sailors were buried, whose graves were perpetually and tenderly cared for. In 1937, with tears literally blurring his eyes, he apologized for the sinking of the Panay. "I am merely an ignorant sailor," he said, "but I want you to know that I am speaking from the depths of my heart...
Osami Nagano, the bluff, hearty sailor, became Chief of Naval General Staff in charge of operations on April 9, 1941. He still held the job on Dec. 7, 1941. What happened that day was not an accident...
...column: "I am 19. ... I foolishly trusted a man whom I met at a picnic. We talked of marriage. Later I found he was married. ... I no longer care for him. But what am I to do about our child? Added to that problem I have met a sailor from Boston who has fallen in love with me. . . . .Shall I have this baby and say nothing to the sailor? He does not know...
...Have your baby. . . . Do not mention your condition to the sailor...
...Drowning Sailor. Lady Gregory died, and for some months he wrote no new poetry. He was busy helping to construct a social theory which might slow down Communism in Ireland...