Word: ship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Within 24 hours, I began to get frantic phone calls from correspondents who were being sent to new assignments," she recalls. "We got into such fascinating topics as 'What can I do with semicircular curtain rods on my new rectangular windows?' and 'Will the company pay to ship my personal 1,000-lb. printing press?' " Some problems were more urgent. When a reporter flew into a war zone, Davis arranged for standby medical aid. "It's a little like being a den mother," she says...
...rescuing anyone at sea whose boat is adrift or in danger of sinking. Thus the service is investigating reports from among 52 survivors of a boatload of 110 Vietnamese refugees who were given food and water but not taken on board by crewmen of the amphibious U.S. transport ship Dubuque in the South China Sea on June 9. The refugees claim that their 35-ft. wooden boat was disabled at the time and that many were near starvation...
...psychological stress of combat on the Vincennes' sailors led to the misreadings, Fogarty's investigation concluded. The cruiser had been on Persian Gulf duty only since late May, and its crew got its first taste of battle the morning of July 3. The ship had just skirmished with Iranian gunboats when the Airbus was spotted, and all hands were already on alert because of intelligence warnings of a possible Iranian terrorist attack over the July 4 weekend. According to the Washington Post, agitated crew members even fumbled the complex firing sequence several times before launching the missiles...
...between their military leaders. Last month Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet Chief of Staff, peered into the cockpit of a B-1B bomber and visited the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt during a six-day American tour. Carlucci on his four-day trip planned to board a missile ship in the Black Sea and inspect the new Blackjack bomber...
...Airplanes is the story of M. (Rocco Sisto), a timid Manhattanite who, while walking his date home one night, finds himself transported to an alien ship, where spacemen subject him to various medical experiments, then release him with a warning to forget everything. M.'s struggle to remember, and to tell the world, is at the heart of the piece...