Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chubby, smiling U.S. Navy chaplain told a Manhattan audience last week about his precarious ministry aboard, the aircraft carrier Wasp, sunk in the Solomons (TIME, Nov. 2). In peacetime Chaplain Merritt F. Williams was a canon of Washington, D.C.'s great unfinished Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul. He had since learned what battle action was like. One afternoon last September, when the 14,700-ton Wasp was struck by three Jap torpedoes and twanged like the string of a bass viol, Chaplain Williams had pitched in to help move the wounded across surging decks, heat-pocked with...
...Wasp and a fourth carrier had gone down, but along with its offensive spirit the Navy had regained the seas around the Solomons, and across the world the Atlantic Fleet had assisted in the invasion of North Africa, when Admiral King again broke his rule of silence last week. His remarks were memorable because they were: 1) his first such interview since he took command; 2) the most thorough official review to date of the Navy's strategy, record and policy in the first year...
...nonplused. There was always a tinge of abstruse mysticism mixed with high idealism in the speeches of U.S. Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. But what did he mean when he said: "Millions of Americans are now coming to see that if Pan-America and the British Commonwealth are the wasp of the new democracy, then the peoples of Russia and Asia are the wolf...
Last week other sections of the press gleefully pointed out that the Economist's typesetter could not, or would not, tell a wasp from a warp or a wolf from a woof. This helped Britons clear up one mystery in a confused world...
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. On Oct. 25-26 U.S. carrier forces sank two Jap destroyers, damaged two carriers, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, one destroyer, two battleships. The Japs sank an as yet unidentified U.S. carrier, a destroyer, a tug and a patrol boat. (The carrier Wasp was lost in an earlier action...