Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yarnell, 83, seadog commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the tense years before Pearl Harbor, who defied threats from the Japanese without shooting at them, although his own U.S.S. Augusta was twice bombed, demanded and got $2,200,000 indemnity when the Japanese sank (1937) the U.S. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze, later, as a retired (1939) officer, denounced the dropping of atom bombs on Japan as "a diabolic act against a defeated nation"; in Newport...
...noon a Chinese gunboat moved into the harbor and contemptuously lay to a few yards off Macao's downtown wharves. Next day two armed motor junks began zigzagging among the fishing fleet. Later Communist police launches joined in. They fired no guns but that night far fewer junks remained...
Pressed by newsmen, Portuguese officials reluctantly admitted that the Chinese had indeed kidnaped some fishermen, and had forced others to go home. But as always, the Portuguese had no intention of offending their immense neighbor. When asked whether the Communist gunboat had not violated Portuguese waters, the harbor master talked vaguely about his authority extending out only 70 yds. from the shore-a figure that conveniently put the gunboat in the clear...
...danger. Once again a government fell, and a new Prime Minister, Ibrahim Nasir, asked that work on Gan be halted. In reply, Britain's High Commissioner Alec Morley steamed from Ceylon to the Maldives aboard the cruiser Gambia, and that led to hysteric Maldivian outcries of "gunboat diplomacy." Because of Britain's eagerness to establish a new steppingstone airbase to break the flight from Europe to Australia and New Zealand, the British are pushing grimly ahead with construction...
Pompous, martial and arrogant as President, Rojas in the prisoner's dock was gaunt and meek. Gone was the suntan he got last month from a gunboat Caribbean cruise that the government gave him after he foolishly tried a coup. Once when the presiding officer demanded that the former strongman rise when spoken to, he protested that he deserved "reverence" as an ex-President. Afterward he was humble. Respectfully, he addressed his accusers as "Honorable Senators"; the senators referred to him simply as "the accused...