Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touches to the great performance in which he would play the leading part. He made sure that he would be accompanied, at the final surrender ceremony, by high officers who had been with him in the darkest Philippine days. Their presence, and that of the old West Virginia, temporarily sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, would not be lost on the Japs...
...helped save the Guadalcanal invasion in 1942 by running his battleships past the P-T-boat advance guard ("This is Ching Lee. Get out of the way; I'm coming through," he radioed) to do battle with the Jap fleet (score: one enemy battleship and three cruisers sunk); of a heart attack; aboard a small boat carrying him to his flagship Wyoming; in Casco Bay, Me., where he was engaged in a special top-secret assignment...
Last week the Navy Department announced the Indianapolis' sinking, ordered an inquiry into what some called a colossal blunder. Of the 1,196-man crew, every last Jack was a casualty; 880 were listed dead or missing. Not since the Juneau was sunk by torpedoes in the Solomons (684 dead, four survivors) had the U.S. Navy suffered such a disaster...
...electricity, telephone and telegraph, water supplies, streetcar and bus systems. Steel mills and shipyards are damaged, but probably in better shape than most Americans think. The bombing program never called for complete destruction of the steel industry; the Japs were deliberatelv allowed to waste manpower on ships which were sunk as soon as they took to the seas. Long accustomed to disaster, the Japs themselves may well be repeating an old saying: "The branches of the willow never break beneath the snow...
World War II has brought a spate of innovations, ranging from the G.I.-adopted Shangri-La (designating a comfort-station in the South Seas) to the experienced tires hopefully advertised by second-hand automobile dealers. Only in the field of creative swearing, concludes Author Mencken, has American verbal fecundity sunk as low as Britain...