Word: bowsprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first airplane : ight from North America over the top of the globe to the European area; and the trip under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins' Nautilus had portholes, searchlights, a tusklike bowsprit "feeler," and sled runners above the deck for sliding along the bellies of ice fields. Above the conning tower was a device for cutting through the ice, so that Sir Hubert could open the hatch at the Pole and pop out on top of the world. Leaky, her propellers serrated...
Outside, a few less ravenous Council members observed that Stone, whom one compared to a New England bowsprit, "wooden, but enterprising," should have been forced to resign. Stone himself admitted that the probable reason for his going against the UN was his commitment to WUS. The WUS man said no commitment had been made. It seemed, rather, a commitment to one man's pride...
...When Viola first sees Duke Orsino whom she is to wed, she rips off her unfeminine cloak and, radiant in something like a strapless evening gown, exclaims (in Russian), "I'll serve him." The next shot shows the duke, his fair hair rippling in the wind, gazing like a bowsprit at the horizon...