Word: gridley
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol, of spectacled, bluff Admiral James Otto Richardson, 1940's CINCUS, whose fleet lies in the Pacific while the Japanese Navy waits-and waits...