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Yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high . . .
Silent Service. No one knows better than U.S. submariners themselves how deadly a sub can be. In 1941, when the proud surface Navy suffered the disaster of Pearl Harbor, a handful of nerveless men had pointed the sharp prows of so-odd U.S. subs toward Japan and written a record...
An ensign just out of the Naval Academy told me later: "Suddenly the war got awfully personal. The prows of those boats were high out of the water. They were roaring in for the kill. We opened fire with the 40 millimeters, our main-battery five-inchers and everything we...
Assurance came from Washington weather men, however, that Charles River wherry enthusiasts won't have to mount icebreaker prows on the bow, as in the so-called summer of 1816. In June of that year snow fell six inches deep throughout New England.
215 and All That. To defend Syracuse against the Romans (215 B.C.), Archimedes contrived huge rock-throwing slings, long poles thrust from the city's walls to drop missiles on enemy heads, great cranes that hooked into the prows of the Roman ships and hoisted them into the air...