Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity squash team yesterday took a sound beating from the Union Boat Club, 5-0, at the winner's courts, yesterday...
Dick Clasby, playing on the third line, evened the score at 15:21 of the period with the prettiest play of the night. He took center Frank Mahoney's pass just back of the blue line, bore right through the middle of the B.U. defense, and boat Bradley...
...July 1951 Rickover was passed over by a selection board consisting, in this case, of nine admirals. This was bad for but not fatal to his career. He went on with his work. In June 1952 the keel of the Nautilus was laid in the yard of the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn. President Truman presided over the ceremonies, along with the Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the chairman of the AEC. Captain Rickover, in civilian clothes even for this occasion, kept in the background, but his work and vision...
Wolf Packs & Traps. The destroyer was a sound fighting ship; the question was how to use it. At first, mistakes were made. While the destroyers went out futilely chasing U-boats in the Atlantic, the U-boats had a field day sinking unescorted Allied ships. The picture changed with improved technique (e.g., the improved use of radar, coordination of air and surface weapons) and the firm policy of destroyer-escorted convoys. Soon, hunter-killer teams of destroyers, destroyer-escorts and carrier-based aircraft had turned the tables on the U-boat wolf packs. By 1945, two U-boats were being...
...generally creditable, except for an over-long but traditional tear jerker sequence in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Miss O'Hara mars her efforts by relying on the same facial expressions she used when her lover left her in a previous movie, and her father's boat sank in the one before that...