Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their wake they left 55 ships sunk or damaged, 91 aircraft destroyed or damaged; hangars, barracks, administration buildings, mills, lumber yards, radio and radar stations, all well bombed...
Back after a year of high society, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" returns at popular prices, still dragging a multitude of pros and cons in its political wake. As soon as it was produced in the fall of 1943, Director Sam Wood was hauled over a bed of hot coals not only for toning down Hemingway's use of sex and swearing, but also for deliberately dodging the political issue at stake, notably by calling Franc's men Nationalists rather than Fascists...
...season for reports. This week, in the wake of Secretary Forrestal's report on the greatest navy in the world (TIME, Feb. 26), General Henry Arnold came out with a report on the world's greatest air force...
...Many people will feel very ill indeed, and after the first jubilations a deep depression will hang over these islands, especially over those who wake up in police stations. . . . When the nation has recovered from the shock, a lot of bishops will make exactly the same speeches as bishops made after the last war. . . . This will make a lot of thoughtful people wonder if bishops are worth the money they...
...Happened. The record is here: Marcus, Wake, Rabaul, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Truk, the Marianas, Palau, Hollandia, a return engagement at Truk, ("This time," said Commander Cameron Briggs, "we intend our performance to knock them completely off their feet"), the battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring...