Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon, Korea time, when a Soviet-built North Korean torpedo boat bore down on Pueblo. Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, 40, was not overly disturbed. Harassment is one of the hazards of electronic snooping, and Skipper Bucher (pronounced booker) had expected to be buzzed by MIGS and bugged by surface craft when he began a month-long tour off the North Korean coast nearly two weeks earlier...
...Stop." Using international signal flags, the PT boat asked Pueblo's nationality. When she identified herself as American, the Korean boat signaled: "Heave to or I will open fire." Pueblo replied: "I am in international waters." She maintained her course at two-thirds speed (8 knots), with the PT boat never very far away. An hour later, three more North Korean vessels came slashing in from the southwest. One was a 30-knot, Soviet-built subchaser, the others 40-knot PT boats. "Follow in my wake," signaled one of the small vessels. "I have a pilot aboard." The Korean...
Still, Bucher kept his cool. After all, U.S. planes not infrequently buzz the Soviet trawlers that serve as spy ships, whooshing in at mast level and sometimes shearing off antennas. It was only when one of the Korean PT boats rigged fenders-rubber tubes and rope mats to cushion impact-and began backing toward Pueblo's bow that Bucher realized what was happening; in the bow of the PT boat stood an armed boarding party. "These guys are serious," the skipper radioed his home port, U.S. Navy headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan. "They mean business...
Thomas Gainsborough, for example, is represented most tellingly by a flamboyant "fancy picture" (a fantasy) of a sleeping country girl. John Constable's Study for "A Boat Passing a Lock" illustrates through its snapshot organization and cavalier brushwork his influence on Delacroix, Millet and Corot. Hardly less impressive are five canvases by the provincial Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97), which range from a firelit Iron Forge to the protosurrealism of The Old Man and Death...
...addition to General Motors' Deep Ocean Work Boat (see opposite page), a sleek, manipulator-equipped craft that will support two men under water for 65 hours, some of the more advanced submersibles...