Word: wardrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours without a break, and much of the time without lights, the Consort's surgeon tended the wounded in a wardroom littered with bits of human tissue and bloodstained clothing. The wounded were lined up on deck waiting to receive treatment; Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...
...Navy rule had always been: no talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...
Washington moved out in the spring, and the house was unoccupied until 1781, when a wealthy shipowner bought it, holding resplendent balls in what had once been the officers' wardroom. At one dinner party he served genuine frog soup, with a live bullfrog jumping around in each plate. The result of all this was that he went bankrupt. A few years later Dr. Andrew Craigie bought the mansion, giving it its present name. Another extravagant fellow, he added two piazzas and tried desperately to make his young, beautiful, and eccentric wife happy there. But he went bankrupt, too, and only...
...officers lounged all day in the sacrosanct wardroom. They kept their hats on in the wardroom, a scandalous violation of naval etiquette. Some of them even sat with their feet on the tables. None of them seemed to do any work. . . . Coarse, extramarital exploits were discussed openly at the dinner table. Some of the officers drank. . . . With his own ears he had heard various officers speak seditiously of the ship and the Navy and, worst of all, of the captain. . . . Young Keith was hocked; he was shocked...
Like many an average citizen, Harry Truman greeted the bomb with few immediate overtones of philosophic doubt. When it was dropped on Hiroshima, by his order, he was aboard the cruiser Augusta, returning from his first international conference at Potsdam. He rushed to the officers' wardroom, announced breathlessly: "Keep your seats, gentlemen. . . . We have just dropped a bomb on Japan which has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It was an overwhelming success." Applause and cheering broke out; the President hastened along to spread the word in the other messes...