Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About an hour after midnight the U-47 was within 3,200 yards of two battleships at anchor. The submarine was only 650 feet offshore; it was "disgustingly light." The torpedoes were fired, the submarine swung about and a torpedo fired from the stern tubes. After three minutes there was a loud explosion, followed by thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver...
...dockers' strike and loaded with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces of the fog that hung heavy and motionless over some 500 miles of Europe...
...Bikini ships as still too difficult or too expensive to decontaminate. The carrier Independence is still afloat at San Francisco, but is so "hot" that it can be used only as a laboratory for decontamination training. Of the original 76 ships (including two barges) that rode at anchor in Bikini Lagoon, only two submarines, five transports and two LCIs are afloat and declared to be completely safe...
...sweated in an un-English 93° heat as more than 5,000 athletes from 58 nations (among the largest: the 341-man U.S. squad) marched around the field. Exactly on schedule, at 4:07 p.m., a runner entered Wembley Stadium, bearing the "permanent flame" from Greece. He was anchor man on a human chain which had relayed the torch from a British destroyer landing at Dover. The flame went out twice...
...minute the water was calm. The next, surging waves crashed against the piers, ships rolled at anchor. Then the stooping, kind-faced man leaned forward and pressed a button-and in a few seconds the water was still again...