Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bobtailed Cruiser." At the commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...Mankind is punished for the great sin which the Greeks called hubris-overweening pride. "I am too great for Fortune's power to injure," says arrogant Niobe, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters. The boast is scarcely uttered, when Apollo looses 14 fatal arrows from his bow. "She would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage of time and the certainty of death. Like his contemporary, Horace ("I have reared...
Neither the Bunny coxswain or bow man Bill Ginalski, had competed in crew before this season's practice began four weeks ago. Senior Jim Barrett coached the winning eight...
Varsity lightweights: Larry Cabot, stroke; Bob Volpe, seven; Bruce Dixon, six; George Ross, five; Captain Bill Coughlin, four; Dick Timpson, three; Jack Henshaw, two, Barry Bingham, bow; George Notter...
Freshman Leightweights: Bob Foley, stroke; Captain Viggo Bettelson, seven; David Sutherland, six; Bob Tyler, five; George Krumbharr, four; Larry Coolidge, three; Hallam Smith, two; Tom Sheffield, bow; Warren Sharmat...