Word: rudder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...
Near Rose Island, 60 miles below Nanking, two artillery shells from the Red-held north bank hit the Amethyst, crippled her bridge and wheelhouse. Rudder controls jammed. The Amethyst swung helplessly with the current; she ran aground on a bar near the island. Her four forward guns, facing the island, were useless, but her stern guns began to pour a methodical fire of 4-in. shells into the Communist positions. The shore batteries cut loose again. "It was a bit of a haze from then on," said one of the survivors...
...airmen). The pilot's jaw rests on a padded adjustable shelf. A counter-weighted forehead strap takes the strain off his neck. He steers the plane by resting his forearms in movable "pans" with hand grips for stick, throttle, etc., at their forward ends. His feet work the rudder, brakes, or both...
...Need a Rudder." At the longer stops, where the candidate made full-dress speeches in auditoriums, the ritual was also unvarying. He swept from the train in a motorcade through mildly curious crowds, arriving at the hall on the dot, striding out on the stage just as the introducer boomed: "I give you the next President of the United States...
Dewey's speeches were not electrifying. "As never before," the candidate solemnly declared, "we need a rudder to our ship of state and we need a firm hand at the tiller." When he referred to his opponent he spoke more in sorrow than in anger, never mentioning his name. "We know the kind of government we have now. It's tired. It's confused. It scolds and complains . . . It's coming apart at the seams...