Word: finned
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...after witnessing the mishap which befell the U. S. S. Akron last February and laid her up for nearly two months for repairs. But nothing was wrong. Last week Lakehurst mechanics were stitching the last bit of fabric to the Akron's torn skin, finished tinkering her broken fin. When Lieut Commander Rosendahl barks "Up ship!" as he sails to join the Fleet in the Pacific next week, his ship will rise as sound and airworthy as ever...
...Akron were about to board her for an inspection flight at Lakehurst when a terrific gust of wind whipped her tail free of the ground crew, bounced it against the ground. After a five-minute tussle the Akron was made fast again. The lower stabilizing fin, containing the after-control car, was smashed; a large expanse of fabric torn from the belly...
...fin-de-siecle crept up on weary Victorians and sent them seeking after "art for art's sake," Bunthorne withered the sunflower in Oscar Wilde's hand and made "Patience" a virtue. Later there came peers such as the House of Lords had never seen, chanting "Tantantara! Tzing! Boom!" On the other side of the world, a humane Mikado began tailoring punishments to fit the crime...
Suddenly Carl Y. Matthews saw something else-a dark triangular fin slicing through the water, going toward his daughter. He knew what it belonged to, though never had he heard of a shark in Gull Pond. Quickly seizing a rusty iron bar that was lying on the beach, Carl Y. Matthews interposed himself between the fish and its prey, met its rush, smashed it on the head, dragged it ashore, killed it. It was a blue shark 6 ft. 7 in. long...
...triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus and aft to an emergency control car inside the lower fin...