Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article of war, her men learned to hide her under water layers where sharp changes of temperature would foul enemy sonar; they practiced with the Navy's new, very low-frequency radio gear with which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They became adept at using Polaris' SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System), the mare's nest of gyros and electronic equipment that locates George Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants...
...there is a Supreme Being, he decides, but one who reveals himself to no one and gives no indication of what is permitted or forbidden. As in his previous books and plays, Polish-born Author Singer delights in superstitious trappings -dybbuks, devils and such imps of Satan as the foul Dog of Egypt, who struggles with the Hound of Heaven for Yasha's soul. But there is little mystical murkiness in Singer's writing: it has a clean and sun-washed optimism, a sense of human uncertainty in the face of divine certainty, which Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber...
...race was a six-day nightmare of groping through fog, hunting for the flicker of a breeze, and battling howling gales of 60 knots that heeled over the big ocean racers, ripped sails, snapped rudders, and forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre...
Having a Ball. In Baltimore, after being clipped for the second time by foul balls during a Pony League baseball game, Mrs. Lilly Mae Butler refused to hand over the horsehide, was fined $10 for disorderly conduct...
...each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...