Word: galleon
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...been achieved without the creativity and dedication of the greatest task force ever assembled for a peaceful purpose: 300,000 engineers, technicians and workers, 20,000 contractors, backed by $33 billion spent on the nation's space effort in the past decade. Nor could Apollo's galactic galleon have ventured forth without the knowledge amassed by the earlier astronauts, from Alan Shepard and John Glenn on, who dared brutal hazards aboard relatively primitive craft in the laggard race to launch Americans into space. In large measure, too, the superb functioning of Apollo 8 was a result of heartbreak...
Full Fathom Five. On July 31, 1715, while the fleet's nine merchant galleons and two men-of-war sailed northeast in a stately procession along the Gulf Stream from Havana, an early hurricane bashed them with 100-m.p.h. winds against Florida's offshore reefs, between 30 and 50 miles south of what is now Cape Kennedy. Only one galleon survived. Captain Ubilla and more than 1,000 of his men drowned. The battered remains of the ships' hulls sank in 30 feet of murky water. Spanish recovery crews, pirates and poachers, hampered by deceitful currents, sharks...
...SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). A new weekly series exploring the Smithsonian Institution and its widespread research centers. The premiere will explore the treasures found under the sea in the San Antonio, a Spanish galleon that foundered on the reefs off Bermuda...
...west coast of South America, sacking the Spanish seaports as he passed. At Tarapaza, "being landed, we found by the Sea side a Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized a Spanish galleon glutted with some 30 tons of treasure, casually allowed that he was "sufficiently satisfied," and then headed home by way of the Moluccas and the kingdom of Java ("The French pocks is here very common to all"). And so Drake became the first Englishman to sail "about the whole Globe...
...avoids the louder noises of militancy, it does not out of cowardice, but because it finds the civilizing process rather pleasant and the prospects at least faintly hopeful. The magazine's emblem catches this spirit, juxtaposing the momentous date, 1914, against an elaborate sketch of an unwieldly Spanish galleon. The message: We may face hell, but we'll have to make do with what...