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Word: refloated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yards away, in a nearby community sports hall, sorrowful relatives and friends filed past 55 bodies in an attempt to identify loved ones pulled from the ship. Most of the victims seemed to be British. At week's end 79 passengers were still missing. The salvage operations will eventually refloat the once luxurious ferry that now rests less than a mile from its berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Grief and a Ghost Ship | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...might ask, did the Navy decide to refloat the Titantic, lost to an iceberg in 1912 on its maiden voyage? The lesson of this movie is that the fewer questions of this sort you ask, the better off you are. If Twentieth-Century Fox had hired Jacques Cousteau to make this film, it probably would have been fascinating. But why film something fascinating when you have a $20 million budget? And anyways, every other movie has spies and sex and actors, right? So, to answer the question of motive, the writers concocted a plot that wastes most...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: SINK THE TITANIC | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

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