Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting speech, Franklin Roosevelt explained what all this meant. "The purpose of Hitler's attack," said he, "was to frighten the American people off the high seas. . . . This is not the first time he has misjudged the American spirit. That spirit is now aroused. . . . Our ships have been sunk and our sailors have been killed. I say that we do not propose to take this lying down." He chose a significant night to tell his story. Navy Day is the birthday of another fighting Roosevelt, who worked hard to build up U.S. power on the sea. It was this...
...Teagle was sunk without warning by a torpedo...
Half-Way Mark? Thus were lost the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh U.S.-owned ships sunk in World War II. Intrinsically these losses-in cargoes, in bottoms-did not mean much. But they added to the toll, not only of lost tonnages and lives, but of lost tempers. They brought U.S. ship losses half way to the total of 22 which were lost in World War I before the U.S. temper carried the nation into...
These three sinkings came at a crucial time in Congress' soul-searchings about Neutrality. Some Congressmen must have heard a kind of eloquence in the statement of an American boy, whose life had been saved after his ship, the Lehigh, was sunk: "Say, Roosevelt calls the Jerries pirates -well, we got a name for them...
...administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, he sank it. What the Premier did not realize was that he had also sunk himself politically, by delayed action...