Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They called themselves "the silent service" and their exploits were inscribed in greasy logbooks and terse messages ("Sturgeon no longer virgin") radioed back to COMSUBPAC headquarters at Pearl Harbor. From their voyages came stories of watching horse races in Tokyo Bay through their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations...
Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum has added a tiny new prize to its treasures-an 8 in. by 6⅛ in. drawing of the Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci. Done in black and red chalk on specially prepared paper, it was evidently a study for the Louvre's famed oil of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne; it has the left-to-right shading that left-handed Leonardo favored...
...executive order, he turned over a batch of 20 functions to the Secretary of the Interior. Among them was the duty of taxing people in the Virgin Islands who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, prescribe or administer marijuana for medical purposes. He also gave up the duty of removing and appointing the principal chieftains of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indian tribes, and of approving resolutions of their tribal councils...
Holcombe won the prize, given annually for "the best books published in the preceeding year...in American History in its broadest sense, American Diplomacy or American International Relations," for his book "Our More Perfect Union." Professor Smith was honored for his book "Virgin Islands...
...Roman Catholic schoolboy throughout the world can tell you that "ivory tower" (Turris eburnea), is one of the invocations of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, and has been since the 16th Century...