Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's flyers. Air-minded sailors of every rank groaned, "Ernie King and the battleship boys have won again." There were too many King-sized ships (i.e., battlewagons) in the deal, said one respected Admiral, who added that if he had his way he would sink them all. Only in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, airmen argued, had the battlewagon served as more than a fat flakship-and they were pre-Pearl Harbor ships at that...
Knowing that the spoken word has only a moment to sink in, the University's writers wisely steered clear of mathematics, tried to get across only a few ABCs of relativity...
...take John Walker, who faced Jap mortar fire with the Marines landing in the Palaus and who almost lost his life on Leyte when a Jap bomb killed three men in the same hut with him. This week in Yokosuka harbor he watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
...Gamblers. The reports for the first time gave eye-popping details of the Jap attack. On Nov. 27-28, a Jap task force, carefully and particularly trained for its mission, set sail from Tankan Bay in northern Japan and headed east, in radio silence. Its orders were to sink any vessel it should meet, even Japanese; nothing must be left to a chance betrayal of its course. In the force were six carriers carrying (said the Board) some 424 planes,*two battleships, three cruisers and a destroyer division...
Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...