Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dream fulfilled for all seafaring scientists. To locate one of the most technologically advanced vessels of its day, the researchers employed the most advanced technology of today. A team of 13 Woods Hole investigators sailing on the U.S. Navy research vessel Knorr joined forces with a contingent of French scientists aboard the Suroit, operated by the Paris-based Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). The two ships bristled with several million dollars' worth of sophisticated equipment. It included a high-resolution sonar device that can trace precisely the contours of the ocean floor, and a compact submersible vessel...
...French mission was not the first to seek the ill-fated ocean liner. From the moment the ship plunged to the bottom, people have dreamed of salvaging the vast riches said to be on board, but the great depths and stormy waters of the North Atlantic were thought to be insurmountable obstacles. Even the advent of deep-sea sonar equipment did not initially hold forth much promise for narrowing the search. Although the Titanic is believed to have ^ gone under at 41 degrees 46 min. north and 50 degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact...
There it rendezvoused with the Suroit, which had been sounding the water since June 28. The French ship had picked up an important echo that was probably associated with the Titanic. Armed with that information, Knorr scientists decided to deploy Argo at that spot. In less than a week, the researchers received the first dim video images of the Titanic that they had been praying for. "We went smack-dab over a gorgeous boiler," crowed Ballard to the Canadian television network CTV. "It was just bang, there we were...
...historical view is essential to his real subject, which turns out not to be the identity and fate of the young nobleman. A Maggot, ultimately, is the story of a new era trying to be born. As in The French Lieutenant's Woman, the future's unwitting herald is an obscure, ostracized but emotionally galvanic woman. She is Rebecca Lee, a prostitute who accompanies the nobleman on his sojourn and who, conceiving a resplendent religious vision at the moment he disappears, is transformed and joins a tiny band of Protestant zealots in Manchester...
...public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example: the slick 56- page pamphlet "Star Wars: Delusions and Dangers" that appeared last month throughout Washington and European capitals, translated into English, French, Spanish and German. Western correspondents are now invited to question urbane Soviet spokesmen at on-the-record press conferences. At a briefing at the Soviet embassy in Bonn last month, the Soviets served trays of caviar canapes along with the rhetoric...