Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When the ship did touch, we felt no jolt; she just stopped. Engines were reversed. All hands were ordered aft to lift...
Things are seldom what they seem in Indonesia. After last October's coup, rumors flew through Djakarta that President Sukarno was either dead, seriously ill, in jail or in flight. But up he bounces, like a kid's bell-bottom toy, and last month he was back issuing decrees, making speeches, and being the same old Bung. Then last week, once again, Sukarno was shoved aside by the military...
Shrout and Adams, resting for the finals of the relay, coasted and finished in the bottom two slots in the consolation finals of the 200-yard freestyle...
Only in squash has Leverett done poorly. Their 3-7 records is near the bottom of the list. Lowell Houses, which will be playing one of Yale's Colleges today, is in first place with a 12-2 record. Dunster, which may not have reported all its games, is tentatively in second place with an 8-2 record. Adams ended the season in third place...
...balance speed and wind designing with cost accounting, marketing and long-range planning. Like many of his competitors in the U.S. and Europe, he sees world automaking as a pyramid, with expensive Rolls-Royces and Ferraris at the top, and U.S. and European mass-produced cars at the bottom. In between there is a growing and superbly profitable specialty market for flashy family sports cars like Ford's Thunderbird, Britain's Jaguar-and his own Alfa-Romeo...