Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROYALL WHITAKER Associate Professor of Economics U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis...
...Naval Academy basketball team took advantage of some Harvard errors late in the second half to blow open a tight game and stop the Crimson for the 11th consecutive time, 70-58 at Annapolis last night...
...words serve as the opening to one of Godfrey Blunden's chapters. They might well be the emblem of his book. The lost works that he has sought to retrieve from oblivion are those of the crew of H.M.S. Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific...
Endeavor's mission was part strategy, part science: to observe the astronomical transit of the planet Venus from Tahiti; to map coasts and islands; to collect and classify strange flora and fauna; to search for a naval base for the coming war with the American colonies, Spain and France. Manned and equipped for all this, the little ship resembled the Swiss Family Robinson afloat. It was stuffed to the gunwales with pigs and goats (for eating), cats and parrots (to break the monotony), even a hunting greyhound named Lady who was used to chase down rare specimens of game...
...father figure, however, was far from a permissive Robinson. Cook, a brilliant, self-taught naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that...