Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek steel hull of a nuclear submarine moved easily and rapidly through the quiet depths, its reactor-driven geared turbines purring, its coffeepots perking, its jukebox playing, its 116-man crew caught up with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President...
...captain instant readings of position. Ten sound-detection devices measured the distance to the ice above and the thickness of the ice while three other devices sounded the sea bed. Findings: polar ice is generally about 12 ft. thick, although some ridges bulged down 50 ft. or more. Crew comforts were also measuring up: the sub's crew was treated to more than 30 movies, e.g., Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set, and cribbage, chess and acey-deucey tournaments were under way as the Nautilus headed toward history...
...signal to the Navy that said something like: "Here we are!" Thirteen miles off Iceland a helicopter arrived out of nowhere, lifted Anderson off for a preplanned hop to Iceland's Keflavik Airfield, where a Navy plane was waiting to fly him to Washington. The helicopter lowered the crew's first outside-world tribute direct from the President of the U.S. It read: "Congratulations on a magnificent achievement. Well done...
...some distress. Many of those working on the show were involved during the day with school work and jobs, so the few hours left in the evening were hurried and hectic. One can imagine the embarrassment caused by the minister appearing quietly in the auditorium while the irritated stage crew wrestled with the cheapest equipment available. But the staff of Christ Church seemed to take it all in stride, despite the gouges that the lighting control board left scraping up the stairs after rolling through the streets of Harvard Square. One rector became so interested that he found himself helping...
...transmitting, the copter must remain within line-of-sight range of the Mount Wilson receiver. But within that range, KTLA will offer its viewers close-up looks at everything from traffic tie-ups to mountainside rescues, crew races and forest fires...