Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elimination of so many hallowed titles has caused consternation in the civil service hierarchy. Said one grieving Ministerialsekretär of the waterways administration: "Our proud captains will become just controllers. It's like losing the command of an imperial battleship in order to conduct Vienna's No. 72 streetcar-the one that runs to the central cemetery...
...dramatic transformation of professional perspective in both psychology and psychiatry has occurred in recent years. A vestige of the anti-homosexual judgment remains among some psychoanalysts and those influenced by the field. Like battleship admirals, certain analysts have far too much of their professional lives (and profits) invested in obsolete ideas and notions...
...destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 [Aug. 23]: truth at last came to the surface-proof once more that Spain was unjustly accused. Will the United States ever apologize? Will the cry "Remember the Maine" quiet down...
...night of Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, where it had gone to protect American lives during the Cuban revolt against Spanish rule. Out of 354 men aboard the Maine, 260 died. Though the Spanish denied any responsibility, jingoistic U.S. newspapers charged that a Spanish mine had caused the explosion. "Destruction of the Maine was the work of an enemy," charged William Randolph Hearst's newly founded New York Journal as it offered a $50,000 reward for conviction of whoever had done the deed. Scarcely two months later...
Last week Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 76, head of the Navy's nuclear-propulsion department, said it was all an accident. In his preface to a 173-page book entitled How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed, which is based on a resurvey of the evidence by two prominent Navy scientists, Rickover argues that there is no sign of the kind of "rupture or deformation which would have resulted from a contact mine." What did cause the blast? Probably, says Rickover, a spontaneous combustion of bituminous coal in the Maine's fuel hold, and then an explosion...