Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with just these first two missile submarines on station-each with 16 missiles-the U.S. will outnumber the Soviets in known numbers of ICBMs and go a long way toward bridging any missile gap. They will open a new sea frontier along the 6,000-mile stretch of Indian Ocean where the U.S. now has no bases. They will be at home along the long Arctic coastline of Eurasia. By 1965, the Navy plans a fleet of 45 FBM submarines-30 on station at a time around the Eurasian land mass. And by 1965 Red Raborn plans to extend Polaris...
...found it impossible to police more than 2,100,000 Frenchmen holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have multiplied by twelve, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver by six, and entries into hospitals for alcoholic psychosis by 18. Do you know that half the crimes...
...Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days It was enough to titillate the great storyteller's ghost. The wackiest ocean race of all time, it started in a cozy English club, the consequence of a five-bob (70?) wager between a balding ex-commando and a bespectacled manufacturer of pocket maps. The wager made, War Hero H. G. ("Blondie") Hasler and Mapmaker Francis Chichester approached the prestigious Royal Western Yacht Club for official sanction. Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies -one lone...
...beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...
...dating the ocean-bottom sediments, Rosholt and Emiliani estimate that the last warm interglacial Pleistocene period extended from 100,000 B.C. to 67,000 B.C., with its temperature peak coming about 93,000 B.C. Since the oldest skull fragments of Homo sapiens (true man) are believed to date from the warmest part of the last interglacial period, this date, 93,000 B.C., can be considered the provisional birth date of the human race...