Word: marees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Navy threw a new and disturbing factor into Russian calculations with the announcement that some time this year California's Mare Island Navy Yard will begin construction of the world's first atom-powered, guided missile submarine. Roughly the same size as the original atom-powered Nautilus (320 ft. long, 3,180 tons displacement), and possessed of the same cruising range,* the still unnamed SSGN 587 will be capable of firing a variety of guided missiles, including the 1,500-mile "intermediate" range missile, which the U.S. hopes to have well before SSGN...
...joke. And yet violence never seems to hurt, love in the child's world is really everywhere, and justice has its own triumphs, as when kings are reduced to thumb-size and beasts are great with wisdom. These verses have, in the words of Poet Walter de la Mare, "their own private and complete little beauty if looked at closely...
Their support, while not outstanding, was certainly adequate. Jay Schuchter and Mare Brugnoni, as Banquo and Macduff, are reliable in every instance, and Edgar Walsh handles the role of young Malcolm with remarkable sympathy. Harry Bingham provides a moment of good Shakespearean humor as the porter...
...place where buses are haunted by vengeful spirits of killed pedestrians and passengers delightedly applaud when a driver outraces a rival, where the press seriously reports the latest woman to give birth to miraculous twins, one a man-child and the other "the loveliest, dainty little four-legged roan mare that the neighbors have ever seen...
...kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare is living in honored retirement, knee-deep in alfalfa, near Camp Pendleton, Calif...