Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that one of Moppie's 550-h.p. diesels had pounded its way clear through her hull-nobody would ever know for sure, because she sank like a rock in 90 fathoms of water. That gave second place to Charles Gardner in Surfury-but with true British sportsmanship, he hove to, hauled Bertram and his two-man crew aboard, and abandoned the race to ferry them back to Miami...
Nuts & Bolts. When he first hove into Washington, McNamara left congressional committees speechless with his matchless grasp of detail. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Daniel Flood: "I had the impression that if we would ask the secretary for the number of nuts and bolts in Warehouse No. 1, drawer 7, Fort Dix, he most probably could tell us." But Congressmen soon became resentful of overwhelmingly documented proposals that left little room for debate; nor was McNamara's popularity on Capitol Hill burnished by his abrasive style and transparent impatience with congressional dillydallying...
...herself would board the Southern Breeze for dinner. Jenner and three other Boston newsmen rented a small launch and staked out the Sinatra yacht. The water was choppy, the light was fading, and the mist was rising when a launch approached the Southern Breeze. As it swung alongside and hove to, the newsmen caught a glimpse of a woman in a black sweater and light slacks who looked like Jackie going up the Southern Breeze's companionway. All four photographers began shooting. "It was like working down at the Boston Garden," said the A.P.'s J. Walter Green...
Half of the marines landed by ship. Scarcely 24 hours after the orders to move came from Washington, a Navy destroyer and four transports hove to in the foam-flecked bay half a mile off Nam O Beach north of Danang, renamed "Red Beach Two" by the marines. A dozen LVTs (landing vehicles, tracked) were lowered from the transports and nosed toward the beach carrying 1,400 men of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. For two months the marines had been floating in the South China Sea, just waiting. "When the temperature went up," said Brigadier General Frederick J. Karch...
...symbolic "Ashes" for Britain in 1926 after 14 straight years of galling Australian supremacy, in 1953 was awarded professional cricket's first knighthood, an honor that forever raised the status of professional players, until then required to address their amateur brethren as "Sir"; after a long illness; in Hove, Sussex...