Word: bulkheading
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...said, 'I am a Catholic. Get me a chaplain. My blood is type A.' I told him that all of us were trapped down there and there was nothing we could do. He then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After...
...might be done partly by mere distance, e.g., by placing the reactors in the tail or far out on the wings. Another obvious trick would be to make the airplane's structural parts or equipment (e.g., the retracted wheels) serve as partial shields. Final protection would be a bulkhead of shielding, to provide a safe "radiation shadow" for the crew's space...
...urges him to devote himself instead to "getting ahead." Mollie lives by what Novelist Sykes bitingly calls "the Manhattan code." She fancies herself a political "progressive," but she really just has a power bug. And by keeping eternally busy at uplift, she provides herself with "an almost watertight bulkhead against melancholy...
...year-old boy, returning to his native Ningpo after his Shanghai employer had fled the country, had just fallen asleep in a crowded passageway. Suddenly the deck shot from under him, hurling him against a bulkhead, and an explosion roared through the ship. His first thought was "Communists" and he hid with his blanket over his head; but almost instantly he felt water rushing in. Although his leg was broken by the explosion, he managed to fight through the blackness to reach the top deck...
...their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...