Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the editors ha dpried their boat from the rocks and dismantled the breeches buoy, the 'Poon had picked up a commanding lead, but ignoring the water now lapping into their boat, the surviving editors raised their stroke to an unprecedented 12, and had once again caught the 'Poon when, passing beneath the Weeks bridge, the shell was struck and sunk by a would-be suicide, finally allowing the 'Poon to win by a mere two lengths over the 23-cable-length course...
...Bell's HSL helicopter, a huge, tandem-rotored affair powered by a 2,400 h.p. engine and carrying a crew of four. The new whirlybird's job will be to protect U.S. convoys from enemy attack by hovering over the ocean, dunking a special sonar buoy into the water to listen for subs...
...enemy jet had been shot down in the shallow water of the Yellow Sea, a few miles off Korea's west coast. British carrier planes fixed and photographed the position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft...
...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...