Word: essex
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Modernization of one Essex-class carrier to handle heavier and faster planes...
Three Torpedoes. Sherman was also a fighter. After Pearl Harbor, he begged for a chance at combat, got command of the Wasp, a small (14,700 tons) carrier that was already outdated by the new Essex-class flattops then abuilding. Under him the Wasp was a taut, efficient and happy ship. The flight plan he worked out for his air group became the pattern through the War for all U.S. carriers...
...Diplomat is the story of a diplomatic mission to Moscow and Iran in 1946. Lord Essex, ace British negotiator who works over the heads of embassies, is trying to talk the -Russians out of supporting a revolution in the province of Azerbaijan. His objectives: to safeguard British oil in Iran, check Russian expansion, keep a friendly government in power in Teheran. Cagey operator though he is, Essex has been careless enough to select as his assistant a man he has never seen before, Geologist Ivre MacGregor, an uncommunicative Scot who grew up in Iran. It is a choice that plagues...
...Diplomat moves airily about from Moscow to Iran to London, casually drags in Stalin, Vishinsky and Molotov as if they were handy stage extras, uses embassies and the halls of Parliament as if they were interchangeable stage props, Lord Essex, half Blimpish charlatan, half rhesterfieldian dandy, is too close to caricature to convince even a reader of Pravda. MacGregor is too churlish, too slow-witted to be anyone's hero, let alone that of a sharp gal-of-all-embassies like Kathy Clive. Whatever a reader's politics, he may well be puzzled by the publisher...
...most of the original gerrymander and still has some of its distended shape. In 1812, when Elbridge Gerry was governor of Massachusetts, his legislature carved up the state's districts to keep the Republicans of that day in power and the Federalists out. When they got through, the Essex South District came out lizard-shaped. Federalist Editor Benjamin Russell had a map of the new district in his office, and on it Artist Gilbert Stuart one day added head, claws and wings and remarked: "That will do for a salamander." Replied Editor Russell: "Better say a Gerrymander...