Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hills. Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, was one of 400 sailors and 155 marines stationed on Guam when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Tweed had just taken an examination for a rating as a chief radioman and was still waiting to hear the results when the Japs came...
Their bombs blew Tweed's house apart so that he had to drag his bed under a fragment of roof to keep out of the rain. He woke up in the night at the sound of firing but foggily decided that it was practice and went back to sleep. He did not realize that the Japs had landed until he heard their field guns firing. Then Tweed walked down to Government House to get the score and found that the Governor was going to surrender...
...Tweed did not want to surrender. "So," he explained, "I got in my old 1926 Reo, packed some things and started up the road into the hills...
...onrushing Japs blazed away at him but Tweed rumbled off safely, picking up a fellow seaman...
...Patrick's Day the President outdid himself in his annual curtsy to the Irish vote. He went beyond the regular green tie to appear resplendent in green tweed suit, green-striped tie and green carnation, a pot of green shamrocks and a green cat on his desk...