Word: shipboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large, she treats her charges as if they were coated with some brand of human repellent, then falls for a boy in Man Tan. She is the senior partner in the May-September affair, and it is the unlikeliest shipboard romance since the Owl and the Pussycat went...
...court them with such niceties as dimming the lights when their national anthem was played. Only a social drinker himself, he kept them more or less happy by serving a fizzy grape drink that looked and popped corks like champagne, yet did not violate the Navy ban on shipboard alcohol...
Sound with the pitch of low piano notes travels much farther than the high-pitched beeps of early sonar. But generating enough such noise under water is a large problem. The Navy's latest shipboard sonar weighs 30 tons and consumes 1,600 times as much power as the standard postwar sonar. The listening apparatus is trickier because the long, slow waves that echo from targets require computers to interpret them correctly. But the detection problem is considered licked, since the new equipment has many times the range of earlier sonars-enough for catching nukes under most combat conditions...
...complex a problem as ever faced the combined talents of U.S. science and technology. It called for a missile that could live in water, the earth's atmosphere, space and the re-entry zone. It demanded a method for handling dangerous fuels and explosives in a confined shipboard environment. Launching problems-tough enough on land-would be infinitely complicated at sea. The ship would need a navigation system of exquisite accuracy if it was to fire its birds on target, and the birds themselves would need a guidance system more precise than any then in production. Even more jarring...
...President, my mother, the head of the Boy Scouts, or who. But, brother, I was ready to die." Men & Money. At first Raborn tried to make some use of the Army's liquid-fueled Jupiter missile. He was soon convinced that dangerous, liquid fuels sloshing around on shipboard would never prove practical. And when breakthroughs in the arcane art of missilery satisfied him that a seaborne solid-fueled bird could be built, he argued that the Navy should set out on its own-that it should start on Polaris...