Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...
...bunk, General MacArthur was already trying to plan for a swift and overwhelming return. The cockle shell craft pounded noisily south through the swells of the Sulu Sea. The General was seasick; his wife chafed his hands to help the circulation. Douglas MacArthur brooded about his old command, and waited for the interminable journey...
American Lake. There was not a Japanese surface craft in sight. Only one enemy plane ventured out to attack. It dropped one bomb harmlessly into...
...high air speed is necessary to develop enough air pressure to open the jets; at less than 150 m.p.h. the jet bomb stalls and falls to the ground. To get the craft into the air, therefore, it is necessary to drive it along a launching platform (on a car) or carry it pickaback on a plane until it reaches 200 m.p.h. At that speed, the bomb takes off under its own power, gradually accelerates to 360 m.p.h...
...LCLs have reached their prescribed point and halt in the water while we in our own rolling craft move on. We pass right through their line, reforming on the other side while they continue to pour fire over our heads...