Word: wardrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first tests, North Carolina shed only superficial skin. Light doors on deck cleaning-gear lockers warped and hung from their hinges in her hot breath, and strip molding from the wardroom overhead dropped down with a jangling crash. But damage-control crews found no major shaking-up. In her first try, North Carolina did better than many an oldtime battlewagon does in target practice...
...radio to the reception that awaited him-sat still, calm, relaxed, happy; his hair slicked back, black doughnut circles gone from his eyes. He wore loose grey tweeds, a light blue shirt, striped blue-on-blue tie, gold collar pin. Sallow Harry Hopkins sat near by against the wardroom's green-grey bulkhead, eyes narrowed watchfully except when he twitched a smile at a face he knew. From the table's green felt top the President picked a Camel, lit it, stuffed it with his thick awkward fingers into his ivory holder. He hadn't any news...
...staffs were informal, and all was not work. The U.S. naval officers entertained the British; and were entertained in return. After the church services on Sunday Churchill treated Roosevelt to the first grouse of the British season, with champagne served liberally, in a luncheon in the Wales officers' wardroom. The President then talked to the British about the war. On the next day the procedure was exactly reversed, the President gave a dinner (black ties) aboard the Augusta...
...commander could learn the unforgettable lessons of his first command. On each one of these pitching, rocking sea horses, bluejackets could learn the strange, good-humored, hell-for-leather technique and attitude of the destroyerman; young officers, at duties on deck and below, or hanging to the overhead in wardroom bull sessions, could become Navy-the good, hard...
Died. British Vice Admiral Humphrey Hugh Smith, 64, briny-tongued Distinguished Service medal winner, onetime captain of Greenwich's Royal Naval College, author of a slaphappy volume of wardroom anecdotes (An Admiral Never Forgets); in circumstances, according to the Admiralty, which arose "out of the various hazards of war not connected with any particular operation or ship...