Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periscopes, radar and radio masts. The decks of the new subs were clean and knife-narrow. Down the center reared a thick, sliced-off fin to house their twelve masts and the snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically from pockets at their sides, and they could dive at a steep 40° angle. Fast and silent as barracuda, the new Tangs are the deadliest new weapons in the Navy's underwater arsenal...
With a hefty, two-handed swing, the wife of Senator Tom Connally last week smashed a magnum of California champagne against the bow of the biggest, fastest, most luxurious ship ever built in the U.S. Then, before 10,000 flag-waving spectators at Newport News, Va., the 51,500-ton, 990-ft. United States was "launched," i.e., she was towed from the flooded drydock in which she was built (she was too big for the ways of any U.S. shipyard) into the James River, and gently nudged by twelve tugs to her finishing pier...
...wand in the catapult officer's hand described a series of red circles in the darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...
...BOATINGS: Varsity: Bow, John Atherton; 2, Phil DuBois; 3, Ollie Iselin; 4, Link Boyden; 5, Steve Hedberg; 6, Lee Rouner; 7, George Gifford; stroke, Lou McCagg; cox, George Walker, J.V.I. Bow, Asp; 2, Keniston; 3, Bliss; 4, Slocum; 5, Anderson; 6, Bohlen; 7, Peale; stroke, A. Rouner; cox, Clark. Freshmen: Bow, Maynard; 2, Lincoln; 3, Sundquist; 4, Hagoort; 5, Geertseema; 6, Goodale; 7, Peterson; stroke, Brownell; cox, Mann...
...gestures are as casual as hat tipping or perfunctory smiles among humans. Others lead to serious "pair formation." When a male and female are getting better acquainted, they go through a series of intricate ceremonials, each of which has its place in the growth of their relationship. First they bow formally, with outstretched flippers. Later, when they feel more intimate, they shake their heads, make a vibrating sound, or stretch out their necks and squawk. As their fondness ripens, the lovers preen one another or kiss by rubbing their necks together...