Word: cussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called him, had humble beginnings. A farmer's son. he was born and raised in the dusty hamlet of Clyde, Texas. Despite his worldly success, his huge barbecue parties, his orchid-colored Cadillac, he retained many traits from his Bible belt upbringing. He never drank, never uttered a cuss word, frequently delivered sermons as a Church of Christ lay preacher. He had a rule that, except for married couples, males and females (including children) could not swim in his pool at the same time...
...since the Jumblies set to sea in a sieve had a less likely vessel ridden the ocean waves. Her name was the Cuss I, after Continental, Union, Shell and Superior oil companies. Squat and grey, she was 260 ft. long, lay low in the water and was crowded with stacks of pipe from stem to stern. Like a misplaced obelisk, a 95-ft. oil derrick sprouted amidships over an open well. But as the Ctiss I was towed out of San Diego harbor last week, the importance of her mission belied the oddity of her looks: when she gets...
Belly & Head. The essentials of this system, plus a specially designed drill rig, got their first big test last fortnight when Cuss I, owned by Global Marine Exploration Co. and originally designed to drill oil wells in much shallower water, stationed herself off La Jolla, where the ocean is 3,140 ft. deep. Four outboard propellers driven by 200-h.p. engines churned the water fore and aft, but, according to plan, the ship did not move. Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing...
...Jolla the Cuss I drilled five holes, the deepest 1,035 ft. Cores of sand, mud and soft stone with a few fossils were brought up. In spite of the loss of two diamond-studded drill points, the tests were considered highly successful...
When Soapy decided to wash up and check out, the odds-on favorite of pollsters and pundits to succeed him was popular Secretary of State Jim Hare, who had led the Democratic ticket in 1958. But Hare was known as an independent-thinking cuss. The unions, in a spectacular exercise of political muscle, swung behind Swainson. On primary day, 70,000 Wayne County Democrats cast "bullet" votes for Swainson; i.e., they did not even bother to vote for the other 16 contested offices on the ballot. Swainson's statewide margin of victory: just under...