Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign relations he has moved from 100% isolationism to a cautious endorsement of U.S. participation in world affairs. Before World War II he opposed conscription, lend-lease, the destroyers-to-Britain deal, arming U.S. merchantmen. When Germany broke with Russia he declared: "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism." In February 1941, he said that the danger of attack by Japan was "simply fantastic." He opposed Bretton Woods, the reciprocal trade agreement, the "Voice of America," the loan to Britain. He supported the U.N. Charter but later...
...Beauty. Occasionally Professor Morison interrupts his hurried pitching of facts to write lovingly of his subject: "A convoy is a beautiful thing. . . . The inner core of stolid merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy...
Tough Jobs. But it was during the war that the Moran Co., which operated 122 tugs for the Government, performed its most notable feats. While the company towed dredges and drydocks around the globe and brought home disabled merchantmen and battleships, Ed Moran went into the Navy as a lieutenant commander in 1942. He came out a rear admiral in November 1945 with a chestfull of decorations and a worldwide reputation...
...antique. Coxere (pronounced Coxery) was a cut above the average 17th Century Jack Tar (e.g., he spoke four languages fluently). Like most of his contemporaries, he wrote phonetically-"yeuneuerseti" for university, "yeumer" (humor), "bin" (been), "westinges" (West Indies). Born in Kent, in 1633, he became coxswain and gunner aboard merchantmen whose loads ranged from Newfoundland cod to indigo, currants and muscadine wine. Between voyages: "[I] took large liberty in drinking and sporting as the manner of seamen generally...
Since 1713, when British merchantmen began putting in at the River Plate, the British have had the inside track in Argentina. Britain is traditionally Argentina's best customer, and one of her chief suppliers. The railways are British-owned and operated, 5 o'clock tea at Harrods is British, futbol is British. When an Argentine pledges his honor he gives the palabra de ingles, "the word of an Englishman...