Word: fin
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...sudden squall lashed into the U.S. Navy dirigible Macon as it plied the skies off Northern California. The storm ripped off the upper tail fin of the 785-ft. craft, which plunged slowly toward the waters of the Pacific "like a big old hen settling down on a nest," in the words of one officer. All but two of the Macon's 83-man crew managed to survive by climbing onto life rafts. The Macon's demise abruptly ended the Navy's interest in huge rigid airships...
...There is no European country that hasn't had its moments of trying to swallow up its neighbors, and I don't think Germany is any worse than any other country," says Carl Schorske, Princeton professor emeritus of history and author of Fin de Siecle Vienna. "Since the war, Germany has become rather European. In fact, even in the clues of personal behavior -- the way people walk, the way people greet you, the way they speak their language -- in all these things, there has been a tremendous change in Germany since the Nazis. I don't see another Nazism...
...first circled Antarctica between 1772 and 1775, he saw hordes of seals on the surrounding islands, and during the next century the continent became a hunter's paradise. By the early 1900s, elephant and fur seals were nearly extinct. And after 1904, more than 1 million blue, minke and fin whales were harpooned in Antarctic waters...