Word: seabound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December 1917 Private McGonegal left Hoboken with 12,500 others aboard the Leviathan, seabound on her maiden voyage as a troop transport under the American flag...
Until wartime bugles blow, the U. S. people always like to think that they, their Army and their Navy would never fight away from their seabound mainland. "The Atlantic and the Pacific are of tremendous value to our defensive situation, but they are not impassable," observed George Marshall in a piece published last week. In such impassable equivocations, he and the Navy's "Betty" Stark must deal. Otherwise that peaceful ostrich, the U. S. Citizenry, might suspect that its hired fighting men are doing their bounden duty by preparing to fight anywhere on earth...
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