Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek steel hull of a nuclear submarine moved easily and rapidly through the quiet depths, its reactor-driven geared turbines purring, its coffeepots perking, its jukebox playing, its 116-man crew caught up with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President...
...Finisterre, the victory was a kind of vindication. Ever since her swift, shallow hull lines were laid down on the drawing board of noted Naval Architect Olin Stephens four years ago, competitors have complained that she was nothing but a rule beater. She was designed, said her detractors, to take advantage of loopholes in the ocean-racing handicap rule, getting such a large time advantage over sounder, abler craft with conventional deep keels that no one could catch her. In response to this complaint, the Cruising Club of America revised its calculations, sent Finisterre off for Bermuda with a shortened...
...Finisterre's Mitchell was convinced that Designer Stephens had put something special into the sleek hull that has carried him to so many victories. Said he: "Every once in a while a boat comes along that seems to go faster and do better than the naval architects say is possible. It must be some kind of an X factor, an extra. I guess Finisterre is one of those fortunate boats...
Friend in Speed. In Miami, Frank Hull and Murray Singer put up $2,500 bond for Charlie Roberts on his promise that he had "the money at home in a hole in the floor," accompanied Charlie home and stood by while he pried up several floor boards, disappeared through the hole and ran away...
Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1, a twelve-mile fishing limit off its coasts, a zone drawn from the outermost points instead of bending like a ribbon to follow the contours of the coast...