Word: hulk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian effort to find and hoist up the remains of PT109, he set off to meet with the adventurers. His special dream: to see artifacts-or maybe even the hulk itself-installed some day in the new Kennedy Library...
Every so often, like an air bubble from a sunken ship, a new bit of law reform arises out of the hulk of the Nixon Administration. A U.S. House judiciary subcommittee is currently taking expert testimony on the venerable and awesome grand jury system, which Nixon's Justice Department had used to intimidate its New Left opponents, and many legal authorities are calling for change. Another alteration in the 800-year evolution of the grand jury, which once served to protect the innocent from over-zealous prosecutors, appears imminent...
...effect, in which a facade of liberal action hides an indolence and stagnation matched only by the indolence and stagnation of liberal rhetoric. The Lampoon may be an elephant, but HRBSA isn't mouse enough to take it on, and neither organization can hope to match the grey hulk of Harvard. It's yet another example of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum twiddling each others' twaddle...
...devises a scheme to save the world from nuclear destruction, realizes the plan requires large quantities of a mysterious element unknown to even the best high-school chemistry textbooks, traces the world's only supply of the element to the cargo hold of the sunken Titanic, miraculously raises the hulk from the depths of the North Atlantic, and then defends its catch against some nasty Soviet spies and an even nastier hurricane. Cussler certainly deserves brownie points for originality, but he doesn't win any for intelligibility. Even with a handful of standard love scenes and assassinations thrown...
This battered hulk of proud, angelic bark...