Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the accommodations for the 80-man crew were spartan by U.S. standards, the sub itself was skillfully designed for silent running, and construction details showed that the Russians "can turn these things out like Mexican fritters," as one Navy expert put it. Before the sub was retrieved, the U.S. knew almost nothing about Soviet torpedo technology. The Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly...
...greater tendency to stay together after freshman year than those from other dormitories. In the past this stemmed from feelings of inferiority: "We used to feel the rest of the University was dumping on us, so we just sort of stuck together," one former resident notes. This year's crew, on the other hand, is united in the belief that "the Pack is the place...
Leadership that involves brute force is a very real, often too real, aspect of human society, and deserves as much, if not more investigation as the more elegant maneuvering of your gentle crew...
Moynihan scrupulously avoided mention of the previous night's victory in his anecdote-filled, stream-of-consciousness lecture, and yelled loudly, pounding on the table in front of him, when a New York television film crew attempted to enter the classroom...
Wilson followed Moynihan home after the lecture, in an entourage that included a New York Times reporter who shouted loud obscenities when she became tangled in a camera crew's cables, and an indeterminate number of other correspondents, each clamoring for a word with the Senator-elect...