Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kashin-class missile destroyers (comparable to the U.S. Navy's Forrest Sherman-class guided-missile destroyer). Last week Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian News Agency reported that in mid-September a Kashin -class vessel caught fire, exploded and turned into a burning inferno while on Red Fleet patrol in the Black Sea. Despite a frantic Soviet rescue effort, at least 225 crewmen and missile technicians aboard died in the mishap. It was the most shocking peacetime sea disaster since the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sank in waters off Cape Cod, Mass., in 1963 with 129 sailors aboard...
...accidental ignition of fuel used in a non-nuclear warhead; they speculate that it may have caught fire while the rocket was still on the ship's missile launcher during a test firing. Although the Raskin-class destroyers were a vital part of the Soviet Mediterranean fleet in the mid-1960s, they have gradually been replaced by newer ships because they have no facilities for helicopters and their missiles can be used only against aircraft. Western experts suspect that the warships often suffered from serious engine defects, which caused fires at sea before...
...narrative is written in prose but he slips lines of verse into it like additional exclamation marks, or commas, or periods. The poetry is raw but effective, as the fragment from his winter in Turkey. Occasionally you can trace the development of a poem later published; a series of fleet stanzas written during scattered days on the island of Poros educe The Thrush (probably his best-known poem), named after a little ship sunk off its shores. A growing awareness of the fierce Greek sun figures in his Three Secret Poems of 1969. Its singularity is a mystery he often...
...Press boat, Hel Cat, a large catamaran that is otherwise used for charter fishing groups out of Long Island, joined the single file line of impressive power yachts as it weaved past the Vigilant and headed toward its special spectating area near the committee boat. The rest of the fleet had to stay back and be content to listen to the radio reports of Jerry Nevin and Norry Hoyt from the Hel Cat broadcast over Newport station WADK...
...which meets automatically whenever there is a crisis. It is chaired by me and it has the deputy secretaries from all of the departments. Our decision, frankly, was sort of a holding decision until we could see more clearly. The only complete decision we made was to turn our fleet around and move it north so it would not be within--it was intended to be about 150 miles from the Chilean coast but then came around at the Falkland Islands...