Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board of inquiry. Perhaps the most likely theory is that a fitting gave way under immense pressure, water blasted through with such force that air compression within the submarine produced white-hot temperatures that melted metal in the instant before Thresher plunged to the muck-covered bottom-where her secret may remain forever...
...Squalus, fresh from the Portsmouth shipyard, plunged 240 ft. to the bottom off the New Hampshire coast when water suddenly filled a compartment. Twenty-six men died in the flooded section, but others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying a telephone to the surface. Four hours later another sub found the buoy, talked by phone with those trapped below. Twenty-four hours after the Squalus sank, a Navy diver reached her deck and directed a 10-ton diving bell in four dramatic descents that saved...
...slowdown that temporarily reduced automobile output from 36 cars to four cars a day. But retrenchment has left SIAM lithe and ready for fresh expansion. With the philosophy of a patriot who feels that Argentina has only one way to go, Clutterbuck says: "My country is at the bottom of the hill. Now we start to climb the other side...
Navy recovered sufficiently in the bottom of the first to score one run on a single, a walk, a sacrifice and an infield grounder, but that brief flurry of activity did not noticeably improve its position...
Competition for the lower spots on the team has kept the bottom half of the Crimson lineup on top of its game. In matches yesterday, Sandy Walker beat basketball star Bob Inman to take over the number seven position, and John Vinton, number nine, stretched sixth-ranked Dean Peckham to three sets before losing...