Word: harbor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collect the gold on the spot. Once on board, Donald was clapped in irons, and-hostages or no hostages-the galleon hoisted sail and headed out to sea. A short while later a hideous explosion-it was young MacLean, they say, who touched it off-rocked the quiet harbor, and the Spanish ship settled peacefully below the waves, ten fathoms down. Only the captain's dog and three sailors escaped drowning...
...stone fort on the shores overlooking the site of the wreck, and announced their firm intention "to shoot guns, pistols and muskets" at any Argyll diver who attempted to "duck and work" near the sunken wreck. In 1683 Captain William Campbell sailed the frigate Anna of Argyll into the harbor and ordered the divers "to sink their bells . . . and duck and work regardless of the threats of the MacLeans." The embattled treasure-seekers managed to catch "a crowne or diadem, and had hooked the sayme, but being chained, it fell among ye timbers." They soon gave...
...Glimpse of Heaven. One morning last week as Palmira sat by the waterfront selling her lupines, three ships dropped anchor in Ancona harbor. On two of them, the U.S. destroyers Glennon and George K. MacKenzie, she wasted no attention, but her heart went out to the black, unkempt hull of the third ship. It was the Soviet freighter Dmitry Pozharsky and from its stern flapped a ragged red flag. With tears in her eyes Palmira called out to her eldest daughter, "Look, Roma, it's come." Then the two scurried off through Ancona's alleyways, routing...
Freshman Senator Paul Douglas stood virtually alone. For two weeks he had been hacking at the $1.5 billion rivers and harbors bill, trying to eliminate a list of projects which he thought were "flagrant examples of pork." Bravely he argued that the country could get along without spending $7,500 to make bathing pleasanter at Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that...
Those who still harbor a sneaking suspicion that this is a historical novel have only to turn to the 30 pages of notes and bibliography at the back...