Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gland of the periscope barrel. The sub broke water, the bridge hatch swung open, the skipper and his lookouts scrambled topside. There they began the countdown required before launching a 1,000-mile Regulus-type missile. The sub rocked quietly, like a metronome. After precisely 15 minutes came the fire command. A light flashed skyward, headed northwest-in the direction of Washington...
...reports of the submarine's death. The kill had come under relatively soft circumstances: Sea Leopard was nonnuclear, its "missile" countdown had required it to expose itself on the surface for 15 minutes-yet it still got off its shot. As compared to a nuclear submarine, able to fire a Polaris-type missile while still submerged, Sea Leopard was a mere seagoing perambulator. Indeed, submariners swear that to stop their boat of the future will be impossible. It is the job of Admiral Jimmy Thach, calling on all U.S. scientific and military resources, to achieve the impossible...
Waspishly worded split decisions, apparent encroachment on the legislative prerogative, political and sociological opinions applied to the rule of law in the land, have brought the Supreme Court of the U.S. under its heaviest fire since the New Deal days. Last week, from the annual conference of state chief justices, meeting in Pasadena, Calif., came the most meaningful criticism yet of the highest federal court...
...Munich were actually stylized caricatures of the city's sobersided medieval citizenry. Against this background unfolded the ribald tale of Kunrad, a young sorcerer, whose ardor for the virgin Diemut scandalizes the whole town. Derided and humiliated by them. Kunrad takes his revenge by magically extinguishing every fire in Munich, leaving the helpless bluenoses in chilly darkness. Kunrad delivers a 20-minute homily to the chastened Münchners (dramatically cumbersome, but Strauss insisted he had written the opera only for the sake of that speech. Soon all Munich is busily engineering Kunrad's conquest and Diemut...
...square-rigger moored off Manhattan's South Street. The shot won $5 in a photo contest, and when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire of 1904 by driving a farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt's Russo-Japanese peace conference in Portsmouth, N.H. "You really had to push to get shots in those days," recalls Rosy. "The other guys would pull your slides...