Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down There." Root's plans for an assault on the record last week were carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving friends who planned to station themselves at various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with...
...suggested by Philco: a high-frequency radio receiver powered by two flashlight batteries and no bigger than a pack of cigarettes. Another: a rescue transmitter for lifeboats. Built into boat or raft, it will get all the power it needs from a battery that starts operating as soon as it is dunked in sea water...
...Habemus Papam . . ." The Fisherman's Ring (showing St. Peter fishing from a boat), which had been worn by the dead Pope, had been broken. Torch-bearing guards searched the Apostolic Palace to see that no intruders were present. Then, as Camerlengo (prelate in charge of the Holy See between pontificates), Cardinal Pacelli personally locked the big bronze door. Next day, after the Mass of the Holy Ghost, he marched with 61 other cardinals into the conclave. On 62 throne chairs around the Sistine Chapel, facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment, sat the princes of the Church...
...tourist, she had first-class tickets in curiosity and energy, although her luggage was overweight in preconceived notions. In four months she toured the nation coast to coast, taking in New England and California, Chicago and New Orleans. She traveled by plane, train, automobile, bus and river boat. She also walked, seeing more of New York in a few weeks than many New Yorkers see in a lifetime. America Day by Day is the diary of her trip, a mixed salad of surface impressions, often crisp and pungent, more often hand-me-down gossip and soggy ad hoc generalizations, mostly...
...York Times reported last week that "it is becoming more evident that many of the forecasters, who earlier this year said the last half of 1953 would be a trying period for business, missed the boat by a wide margin...