Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loud criticism of the Allied war strategy (in 1943 he wanted emphasis shifted to the Pacific, said he was "unable to agree" with Winston Churchill). ¶ A bulldoggish attitude about Army promotions ("I'm not going to just rubber-stamp everything they bring up"). ¶ A miniature political tempest when a rival in the 1942 campaign charged that a Louisville contractor had built a swimming pool in his backyard as a gift. (Happy was cleared...
...clear that the Jap command had resorted to a defense as macabre to Western minds as it was typically Japanese. There was no question that the harakiri tactic of Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) airmen had been adopted as a chief effort. There were strong indications that it had become the major hope of a defense of desperation...
...Admiral's communique told the U.S. public what the U.S. press had dutifully refrained from telling: that the Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships; that this Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) Corps has damaged some major U.S. fleet units and sunk some smaller ships...
...Army was not inclined to talk about this new tempest. The charges were serious, and were being investigated. Only the restaurant owner, and some of Ward's employes, seemed unconcerned...
...right. The Tempest's producers must employ at least 16 musicians (its music is scored for twelve) at $92 instead of $65 a week-"or we'll close the show.'' Indignantly, the producers appealed to Petrillo, 802's national boss...