Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ships to Race. The time is the turn of the century. The ships are three- and four-masted craft, fighting the. losing battle of sail against steam as they race with their cargoes of grain and nitrates out of Australia, Chile and San Francisco, round Cape Horn to their French home ports. From these ports come the homeless, hard-bitten men who man them-a surly lot, mostly shanghaied aboard by brothel-keepers to whom the poor fellows have lost every franc. As vicious as any man caught in this vicious cycle is Common Seaman Rolland, who is lugged aboard...
Around the Horn. The Massachusetts mainlanders who settled Nantucket in the late 1600s, Stackpole believes, had little other choice of occupation. Their small island was hardly suitable for much farming, whereas whale oil could be a rich cash crop...
...first, the men of Nantucket copied the Indian technique of taking whales stranded close in shore. Later on, they pursued them far out into the Atlantic. By the beginning of the Revolution, the pursuit was taking the whalers as far as Cape Horn, and they were bringing back an annual harvest of 30,000 barrels of oil for the lamps and candles of the U.S. and Europe. There was even a highly profitable use for the whalebone: corset stays...
With some of your criticisms of London taxis any Londoner must agree . . . The basic design of the London taxi has changed little with the years, yet . . . the "rubber bulb horn and the wheezy engine" have now been superseded by a large and growing fleet of "radio cabs," conforming ... to a design intended to make turning and parking easy in narrow streets, yet clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years...
Fixing his heavy, horn-rimmed glasses in place, the President faced his weekly press conference and began to read in a low voice. "I would like to present to you . . . with fairly broad strokes, what I consider the sensible framework . . . [for] an ever more effective posture of defense." Quickly he came to the heart of his defense-security philosophy: "I have always firmly believed that there is a great logic in the conduct of military affairs. There is an equally great logic in economic affairs. If these two logical disciplines can be wedded, it is then possible to create...