Word: acheron
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Setting sail in 1805, in the midst of the Napoleonic war, Aubrey is ordered to take his ship, the HMS Surprise, to the Pacific and prevent The Acheron, a French ship, from extending France’s dominion to the Americas...
...Mary V. Acheron '42 began working in a New York chemical warfare plant the September after her graduation. After three years she was promoted to supervisor and guideline writer...
...conflicting forces. His poetry leaps with disconcerting metamorphoses at every turn of speech. The bullets that "a stringy policeman" counts become rosary beads. The swan-shaped boats on the ornamental ponds of the Boston Public Garden become mythological birds taking his grandfather, Arthur Winslow, beyond Charles River to the Acheron where the wide waters and their voyager...
...radio-recording equipment, the explosion was producing some weird and widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally disrupted for several hours. For seven panicky hours the British Admiralty lost contact with the submarine Acheron, which was cruising in the frigid waters of Denmark Strait...
...eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers. But the mass of Germans remain doubtful and suspicious; a relapse in West Germany's economic health, or even its failure to improve, may incite bitter resentment and political collapse...