Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days later, he sounded even less convincing. On an inspection trip to the Pratt General Hospital at Coral Gables, he said that talk of his political future "is not good for the great organization I command...
...found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...
...blast pressure, transmitted through 150 feet of almost incompressible water, crushed the coral on the lagoon floor, turning the color of the water from slate-blue to turquoise...
...night was drizzly and starless, but in the last hours of June the forecast was for clearing weather. By July's first dawn, the blacktopped, coral runway of Kwajalein islet was ablaze with lights. It was Able-day for Operation Crossroads and the explosion of the world's fourth atomic bomb...
...Coral Comes High is an unpretentious, stark, blow-by-blow story of a terrible action, well told in the fewest possible words and illustrated with the author's own pen & ink sketches...