Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When U.S. Warships go into action, telephoneequipment transmits orders instantly, clearly,"one ad read. "For the huge battleship Wisconsin,Western Electric supplied two systems usingequipment designed by Bell TelephoneLaboratories...
Minesweeper is another poisoned gift from Microsoft, a jazzed-up cyberversion of the old grade school battleship game that was played long ago by wanton boys behind the math teacher's back. Well, I'm 44 and school's out. Who's to stop...
...final detector was to be a cylinder aboutfive stories long and eight meters in diameterwith "as much metal as a battleship," says John E.Huth, professor of physics...
...last year when he made Americans wince, a majority of them remain ready to credit his progress on things that matter to them, including the deficit and health care. "People think that the President is trying," says White House chief of staff Mack McLarty. "It's like a huge battleship on a river. We're beginning to turn it around...
...Merm's. Yet for the most part, Midler makes the role her own. She conveys much less anger than most predecessors, and rather more romance. Her relationship with manager-paramour Herbie (Peter Riegert) is convincingly sexy, which atones for the mediocrity of Riegert's singing. In contrast to the battleship that Daly made of the role, Midler is devastated, almost fragile, when her younger daughter June elopes and breaks up the family vaudeville...