Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worst thing wrong with the pictures is that no plane on a carrier would be headed, as Artist Matejko's are, toward the ship's stern, either before take-off or after landing. They invariably land at the stern and take off at the bow in the same direction as the carrier is traveling, thus utilizing the carrier's ground speed to achieve their landing or take-off air speeds...
...remarkable for its similarity to the jubilant account presently published by Germany. Mr. Churchill explained that, by "a remarkable exploit of professional skill and daring," the U-boat got through net and mine barriers and "fired a salvo of torpedoes at Royal Oak, of which only one hit the bow. This muffled explosion was, at the time, attributed [by Royal Oak's officers] to internal causes, and what is called the inflammable store, where the kerosene and other such materials are kept, was flooded...
...Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently Prien's first torpedo, which he thought hit Repulse (or some other ship*), did not go past Royal Oak's bow...
...whole bow of the ship seemed to go up sky-high...
...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...