Word: ship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful scientific-technical community and its humanities disciplines. For all his accomplishments, Kennedy is modest about his role at the university: "I can steer it a bit, but I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to." Yet all signs are that the Kennedy touch will keep the tight ship that is Stanford moving handsomely forward...
...unreason, reality and fantasy. The foolish, stubborn old man who leads the opposing side must go, and all his ilk with him. We will never be able to confront our difficulties squarely with a President who thinks ketchup is a vegetable, Ed Meese is honest, and who guides the ship of state by the stars...
...operated in the highly corrosive atmosphere of the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. "The only difference this time is that . the fuselage floor held," Miller said. "But the fuselage skin on the Aloha flight started its peel-back almost exactly where it did on the Far Eastern ship -- just aft of the cockpit bulkhead...
...simulating Soviet submarines in naval exercises. But the war games turned deadly last week. As the Bonefish ran at periscope depth 160 miles east of Cape Canaveral, blasts erupted from one of its two battery compartments. Flash fire and toxic gases forced the 92-man crew to abandon ship. Twenty-two crewmen were hospitalized; Navy salvage workers later found the bodies of three crewmen aboard the vessel. The Navy has not yet determined the cause of the accident...
...Garner's craft and natural buoyancy enable him to escape the disaster, his co-star quietly goes down with the ship. Moonlighting's macho man lacks the hell-for-leather flamboyance that the historic Tom Mix gloriously possessed and that this frail fictionalization desperately needs. As a 1920s cowboy, Willis is strictly 1980s Rodeo Drive...