Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fluid ran out over the deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship. The Mont Blanc drifted across the harbor, nuzzled against a pier and set fire to it. People with minutes to live watched from harborside and rooftops. The crew of a tug mounted the Mont Blanc's decks to secure a hawser. The ship was so hot that the waters lapping it sizzled. Then it exploded...
...Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave that was felt for miles...
...seen a local utility company by pass the top man in an engineering class because he was Japanese, pick three lower-ranking men who were all Caucasian), Yamasaki decided to leave Seattle. In September of 1934, he arrived in Manhattan with $40 to his name. Remembering Pearl Harbor. A depression, he quickly learned, is no time to be an architect. In office after office, he found that the boss was just "sitting around reading the newspapers." So Yamasaki spent that first year in Manhattan wrapping china for an import firm. It was not until 1937 that he got into serious...
...Right down the road to another Pearl Harbor...
Sherman is a plump, crew-cut chipmunk man with black-rimmed glasses and a blinking diffidence that suggests he would like to make apologies throughout the harbor for the fact that his ship came in so fast. He is 38. He was born in Chicago and raised by his mother, his father, and three successive stepfathers in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York. He went to 21 public schools and the University of Illinois. After rolling around TV for some years, he helped think up I've Got a Secret and dropped into relative security as its producer...