Word: belknap
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...literature and records of interviews with 2,752 native Americans in 1,002 communities. The team has nearly finished editing the letter F. First conceived in 1889, the dictionary, which will include 60,000 entries, is to be published in four volumes during the 1980s by Harvard University's Belknap Press...
Four of the 13 prizes--the William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize, the Jeremy Belknap Prize, the Roger Conant Hatch Prizes and the Francis Sales Prize--became available to Radcliffe undergraduates late in the application process this term...
When the fires died down, the Belknap's casualties were swung aboard the Ricketts in stretchers. Some of the men were so badly burned that they lost strips of skin during the transfer...
...daybreak the Belknap was a smoldering hulk in the water, her superstructure a jumble of twisted steel and aluminum; the damage was so extensive that she may have to be scrapped. The Kennedy, which had quickly extinguished her fire, suffered only minor damage to her flight deck and soon was again launching planes. One man was killed on the Kennedy, and six on the Belknap. Forty-seven members of the Belknap's crew were injured, 21 severely. Casualties would have been far higher if the crews of the Belknap and the Ricketts had not fought so heroically through...
There were starkly conflicting versions of the courses steered by the Kennedy and the Belknap, leading to the disaster that all sailors fear - a collision at sea. The Navy began an investigation to determine who or what was at fault when the carrier and the cruiser started a maneuver that should have been so simple but ended so tragically...