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Ralph: Look at the advantages, dearest. Because of this brilliant legal breakthrough, faulty dog-poop removal may be proper grounds for divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Do Lawyers Make a Marriage? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...will agree never to go bald. And naturally, I expect you to remain wrinkle free and wasp waisted until further notice from an impartial panel made up of myself, Bert Parks and my attorney. Since we own no pets, I am willing to waive the dog-poop provision. Do you think this will remove the romance from our marriage, dearest? If so, I could add a romance-preservati on codicil to the general warmth-maintenance provision. How am I doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Do Lawyers Make a Marriage? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Alvin descended to a point about 450 feet from the stern and then rose to maneuver atop it before settling on the poop deck. Between two mooring line rollers, the plaque was placed to commemorate the victims and William H. Tantum IV, who encouraged efforts to locate the ship but died five years before the 1985 discovery by Ballard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explorers Memorialize the Titanic's Dead | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

Everyone on deck was catapulted into the dark, heaving sea. "As she went under I levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Meant to Kill Us | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...steamboat got caught in Ohio River ice. The 26-year-old passenger from Paris, Alexis de Tocqueville, dispassionately wrote in his notebook, "Just now the vessel is cracking from poop to prow." There was nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way except by walking to reach Louisville, 25 miles away over a snow-covered trail. But Tocqueville had limitless energy and curiosity. As Political Columnist Richard Reeves observes in this book retracing the French aristocrat's nine-month journey through the U.S., even after the freezing forced march Tocqueville was still restlessly observing and asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New World at Middle Age | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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