USS Tumult Am-127/post-war Operations 1945-1954/in Japanese Waters

Famous quotes containing the words tumult, post-war, operations, japanese and/or waters:

    The awaited scream rises,
    the shattering
    of glass and the cracking
    of bone
    a polar tumult as when
    black ice booms....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney.” Mr. Wallace’s warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.
    Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)

    You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.
    —Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)

    The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
    Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter. Lewis Milestone. Yin Chu Ling, The Purple Heart (1944)

    They that goe downe to ‘th sea in ships:
    Their busines there to doo
    In waters great. The Lords work see,
    I’th deep his wonders too.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CVII (Bay Psalm Book)