Word: abeam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the lookout came a new alarm: Two more enemy sighted. Light cruiser. Heavy cruiser. Starboard abeam...
...Portland' itself is 610 feet long and 66 feet abeam. She draws 19 feet and is about s high as some of the Harvard towers, 136 feet. Since every attempt has been made to keep the fittings of the ship light, aluminum alley fittings replace steel, aluminum paint is used internally, and welding has been employed wherever possible instead of riveting...
...weather freshened up a bit, the wind veering to the east. Both vessels took in their spinnakers for a reach (wind broad abeam). At the halfway mark shirtsleeved Skipper Vanderbilt went wide. Shamrock V, less than three minutes behind, passed close enough to the Thomas F. Moran to pitch a cork aboard. Both boats, breaking out jib, baby jib, topsail and staysail, started on the homeward reach (wind close abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail...
...Attack. With no shots fired and distances immense, the engagement of the "backbone" by cruisers and destroyer was unimpressive, inconclusive. Then out of nowhere in the heavens over the battle fleet, aiming at a point 300 yards abeam the Salt Lake City (to avoid possibility of a crash), one fighting plane after another shot screaming down in power dives of attack, at speeds (250 m. p. h. and more) impossible to meet with defensive gunfire. These were followed by the "smokers," larger planes flying low to lay five-mile banks of white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle...
...scornful dictum regarding grand opera. The soprano gives vent to this Parthian shot as she strides out for the last time before New York's "Golden Horseshoe". Coming from a singer who is herself neither pompous nor, one likes to think, slow, the criticism strikes the operatic world peculiarly abeam...