Word: sail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail for Hawaii in the brig Thaddeus...
...those for an airplane, the Navy settled on a length of 252 ft.-almost 70 ft. shorter than the Nautilus-a 31-ft. beam, and a blunt nose that makes her look more like a blimp than a ship. A tall, thin conning tower, which the crew calls a "sail," rises out of her rounded, whalelike back to give roll-stability and carry the forward control planes...
...Noise caused by water passing rapidly over the ship's skin and control surfaces can play hob with delicate sonar gear. The Skipjack's forward planes (used to raise or lower the bow during underwater maneuvers) are a particularly noisy item, so they were moved to the sail to keep them as far as possible from the sonar in the bow. Another trouble is control. The Skipjack's maximum depth has not been announced, but even if it is better than 1,000 ft., the ship has a comparatively thin layer of water in which to maneuver...
...energetic, 38-year-old Washington, D.C. internist named William Walsh. One of the outgrowths of President Eisenhower's people-to-people program of 1956 to boost international ties, HOPE has already received "substantial" amounts (biggest donors: the drug companies), and Walsh is convinced that Consolation will sail on schedule, accomplish Ike's original idea. "This is going to have a tremendous impact," says Walsh. "We can do it in other parts of the world-there are four more hospital ships in mothballs. It's a cheap way of waging peace...
Public Relations. "As a man of courage, [the president's] impulse may be to say 'Damn the torpedoes' and sail straight ahead. He may be sure that he will encounter torpedoes, and more likely than not, he will get sunk...