Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week's end, the first British soldier to die in Korea was buried beside several hundred U.S. and South Korean dead in a cemetery on the outskirts of Taegu. Over the cemetery flew the blue and white flag of the United Nations...
...stepped out on his bridge and squinted into the first light. Commander Charles Kinsella, air operations officer, announced, "Make ready to launch in ten minutes." Captain W. K. ("Puss") Goodney, the carrier's captain, responded with an order to make "fox at the dip"-meaning: raise the code flag for the letter "f" (red diamond on white base)-halfway...
...messages of thanks, congratulations and well-dones from the "people ashore." The admiral knows his boys have done a good job. But there is a lot more war, a lot more work ahead. Then, too, there is always Formosa off there over the horizon to the right of the flag bridge...
...occasion when "bogies" (unidentified and presumably enemy planes) were reported only 18 miles off, an excited officer in the flag-plot cabin reached for the ship-to-ship radio telephone and dropped it. Another excited officer darted to pick it up, and upset the transmitter. Radford, who had been watching, picked up the telephone, quietly gave an order: "Emergency Turn 9," and turned away. No one ever heard him raise his voice in the stress of battle...
...wrote a World War II flag-waver: We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...