Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds choked the streets, jammed skyscraper windows. Among the watchers was a small, greying man with a heavy accent. With agonized eyes Vladimir Yourkevitch, naval architect, designer of the ship's hull, watched the Lafayette burn. Suspicious policemen refused to let him through the lines. In the pier shed beside the ship, tall, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Chief of the Third Naval District, watched...
...democracy. He was driven out as a dictator when he tried to give orderly government to the region he had freed. His was the pioneer vision of Latin-American unity and hemispheric solidarity. (He was never able to achieve either.) Both his stupendous successes and his stupendous failures shed light on much that Americans find strange in the problems of Latin-American democracy...
Said onetime isolationist Editor Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News: "That Colonel's cry . . . should shame and humble every American on the home front. . . . Too much has been said, too many tears shed about the loss of a few ships and some scores of planes at Pearl Harbor. . . . Too little has been said about the much worse blunder of failing a year ago to convert automotive and other peace industries to defense production. By that failure we have lost a thousand planes and tanks and ships for every one lost at Pearl Harbor...
Japanese submarines shelled three islands of the Hawaiian chain one night last week. They damaged a small shed, set fire to a cane field. Questioned at a press conference aboard a submarine about U.S. Navy counteroperations, island-wise, white-thatched Admiral Chester W. Nimitz answered in island slang: "Hoomanawanui" (Let time take care of the situation...
...outfit did not disintegrate. By the time he had got it to the beach to cover the embarkation (and his orderly was brewing a cup of tea in a nearby shed) its casualties were heavy. When it shoved off, still a unit, despite 30-40% casualties, there was only one explanation for its performance: high morale, thorough training...