Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trutta, Tang, Wahoo. The sea saga began at 2 a.m. July 23, when Nautilus pulled clear of its berth at Pearl Harbor, its destination announced as the Panama Canal. Only a handful of Americans knew Nautilus' secret mission-an 8,146-mile voyage from Pearl Harbor to Portland, England, via the North Pole. Last August and September Nautilus had probed under the ice pack in a little-noticed voyage, got within 180 miles of the Pole and closer than any ship had gone before. Last December Nautilus' developer, Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, predicted that Nautilus would...
Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from
...this long, rambling autobiography, one of World War II's authentic heroes does his best to prove that he was also a bum. Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington's saga begins in the summer of 1941, when he was a Marine officer and a flying instructor on the naval air base at Pensacola. He was, as usual, restless. "I was forever going somewhere but never getting anywhere. For the most part I was always leaving some geographical location just prior to my being asked to leave." Marine Corps Headquarters was getting tiresome about the growing difference between his debts...
...Common Man more things are tedious than tragic. But the saga of Portia Parsley is a legitimate tragedy--one of the great wastes we think about over stale beer and dirty postcards...
...Lipstick. The saga of royal jelly is a striking example of one of the most significant aspects of the whole beauty business-one that puzzles many a woman, irritates many a husband. Says Mel Finkelstein, president of the House of Westmore: "In this business, price is not consistent with cost." When it first came out, royal jelly cream sold for $15 an ounce despite the fact that an ounce contained only about 150 milligrams of jelly, worth about 17? today a woman can still buy creams containing royal jelly in some stores for $15 an ounce, but she can also...