Word: habakkuk
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...dreamed up the "weasel," the tracked, amphibious jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended...
...From a verse in the book of Habakkuk: ". . . . For I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told...
Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem in 1773. His father, Habakkuk, was un educated, but was said to be "not destitute of powers of mind," and was best remembered by his pastor for "his knowledge of the Scriptures and his extraordinary consumption...
...weeks of day-night vigil, the President journeyed to Hyde Park for a weekend rest. With his mother he drove through the rain to St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, where he heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson denounce Adolf Hitler, read from the Old Testament (Habakkuk, 2:8): ". . . Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee...
...also this: 'Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest the bottle to him, and maketh him drunken also.' (Habakkuk...