Word: man-of-war
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...Brandon ("I kept my own name," he says wryly) at a Navy school more than a decade ago. Brandon is proud of what his wife has accomplished. "It couldn't have happened five years ago, but it's the right time to have a woman commanding a man-of-war," he says. Brandon, who retired in 1996 after 17 years as an officer, is now the children's primary caregiver. "It was the right thing to do," he says. "Her career was a little more successful than mine, and trying to have dual careers the higher up we went would...
...Mirage, don't seem satisfied unless every trick is a show-stopper and every moment has the feel of a finale. In front of the new Treasure Island is a Caribbean-cum- Mediterranean faux village fronting a 65-ft.-deep "lagoon" in which a full-scale British man-of-war and pirate vessel every 90 minutes stage a battle with serious fires, major explosions, 22 actors, stirring music, a sinking ship. It is very impressive, completely satisfying -- and gives spectators pretty much everything in 15 minutes, for free, that they go to certain two-hour, $65-a-seat Broadway musicals...
...course in Naval Science, as it was then called, was one of the highlights of my undergraduate years. Courses in navigation, engineering, gunnery and history; summer cruises to the Caribbean living and working with enlisted men and officers of the regular Navy; and manning the varied duty stations involved with sailing and fighting a man-of-war at sea were maturing and broadening experiences of educational value. Within three years of graduation I was called to active duty, almost six months before Pearl Harbor. Late that summer six of us from that NROTC class were aboard ships in the same...
...best place to start sightseeing is at Canada's own pavilion, which is across town, half a mile or so from the rest of Expo. Set on a giant pier, it is topped by five soaring fiber-glass sails and looks a little like an 18th century man-of-war striding into the wind. Get into line--the first, alas, of many at Expo--for two informative and blissfully short movies about the host ; country. Next comes a never failing crowd pleaser, a 3-D extravaganza that among other things, sends a train roaring out into the audience. Then something...
Gould cited siamese twins, clones, and animals like the Portuguese man-of-war which exist only as colonies, as "phenomena which would call into doubt" any sharp distinction between individuals and "collectivities...