Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painless and pointless film debut as the skipper of a glass bottom boat for sea-sighters. At one point Godfrey takes up his ukulele to strum a Doris Day hit tune of yore. The old pro may believe that reminiscing is as good a way as any to buoy up spirits aboard a doomed ship...
...Oxford: a 3¾-length victory over Cambridge in the 112th Annual Dark Blue-Light Blue crew race, on London's windswept Thames River. Forced to find a substitute boat after their No. 1 shell collided with a buoy and sank during practice, the Cambridge rowers battled the favored Dark Blues bow-to-bow for 3 mi. of the 4-mi., 374-yd. race. Then, at the last bend, Oxford Coxswain James Rogers steered straight across the Cambridge bow, forcing the Light Blues to check as Oxford pulled away...
...some visual reference for his baffled viewers. Once, a colorful Constable outshone one of Turner's seascapes. Turner put onto his work a splotch of bright red the size of a shilling that drew eyes away from the Constable. The next day Turner shaped it into a channel buoy...
...bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...
...miles of coastal water, ships equipped with ultra-sensitive sonar crisscrossed the 120-sq.-mi. search zone. But Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 50, commander of the task force, ordered three weird-looking submersibles, especially designed for deep-sea research, to pay special attention to the spot around the buoy...