Word: seaport
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...recent morning, a naval officer in civilian dress stepped off a train at a fog-shrouded New England seaport and climbed into a waiting limousine. The car sped through the quiet streets and out into the misty countryside. A short while later, in a well-guarded brick building, the Navy man was speaking in harshly urgent tones to a handful of scientists and shipbuilders gathered around a conference table. The officer's name: Captain Hyman George Rickover. His job: to direct the building of the U.S. Navy's first atomic submarine...
...still trying to get ship passage, promised to be home "inside of a couple of months." Four months later, John Graham got a Christmas card which indicated that she had written several letters he had not received. She still couldn't complete arrangements" to leave the seaport of Tientsin...
...Although the Korean war may interfere with its plans this year, the Navy believes in sending its men to sea. Contract students take one cruise before their last year in College, in the past lasting three weeks and often going to some North American seaport such as Quebec...
...east coast the R.O.K. Capitol Division drove into Songjin, a seaport and rail center 75 miles southeast of the Manchurian border, but were stalled a few miles farther north by 2,000 Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...
Novelist Baron's soldiers belonged to a company of battle-worn British infantrymen who had fought their way across the Sicilian plain in the summer of 1943 and reached the seaport town of Catania, in the shadow of Mt. Etna. There they commandeered a tenement building and settled down to rest...