Word: warship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship, covered by Soviet planes, steamed up & down the Danube in Yugoslav waters, defying orders to halt, and acting, said Belgrade, in a "deliberately provocative manner...
...revolted against Austrian rule and proclaimed a republic, was under Austrian blockade by land & sea, almost demoralized by hunger, disease and heavy artillery bombardments. A young Austrian officer is said to have persuaded his superiors to let him try a balloon attack. Launched in favoring winds from a warship in the bay, the bags were filled with hot air from suspended straw fires and carried 28-lb. explosive charges equipped with primitive rope fuses...
Thirty years ago, France's finest orchestra, the 90-year-old Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, was embarked on a U.S. warship, destination New York. At their first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor...
Suddenly, looming out of the fog, her captain saw above him the huge bow of a freighter. His thin-skinned warship plunged headlong into the 10,000-ton Yarmouth County, outbound at a cautious eight knots. Fifty feet of the Micmac's port bow was peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Jagged steel ripped through the arms and legs of seamen dozing on their mess deck. Crashing steel girders pinned others to the deck...
...their ten-week trip, the visitors had made friends for themselves and their Empire. Last week, they were back on board the Vanguard, steaming home to Britain. "U het ons U harte gegee" (You have given us your hearts), the Queen told their South African subjects. As the big warship moved slowly out of Table Bay into the open sea, the crowds thronged the dockside for a last glimpse. "Will ye no come back again?" they sang. At his farewell banquet the King had already given his promise. "Tot Siens," he had said in his best Afrikaans. "See you soon...