Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glacier is quite active, moving about 2 to 3 feet a day. Thousands of icebergs break off into the sound each year; about once a year, a ship hits one, but there have been no sinkings or drownings...
...they were part of 3M made the move to the Imation payroll. Gone were two management layers, five manufacturing plants, seven labs and jobs ranging from clerk to scientist. Many older workers, apprehensive about the new company, took early-retirement packages. There was no going back to the mother ship either. "Imation designees," as they were known, can't work at 3M for two years...
Hansen sets his tale aboard the Titanic in April 1912, when the great liner made its first and last voyage. On a starry night, aloft on a waveless ocean, the ship is seen steaming serenely toward New York City at 22 knots. In scene after scene Hansen describes an eerie quiet: the reader feels no sense of doom or foreboding. Wireless warnings of icebergs are received, without alarm...
Hansen's characters are the seven members of the ship's band (their names and histories taken from the author's imagination, not from the crew list). They are a diverse lot, talented and quirky flotsam from England, France, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Russia and perhaps Germany (though none, strangely, from Scandinavia). We get the life stories of several in brooding, inward, coming-of-age chapters. These are effective, though they show signs of emptying the author's notebooks of a lifetime of cherished oddities, including the story that in the 1730s, Russia's Czarina Anna Ivanovna caused...
...Kennedy's, says Andersen, and William Holden to Jackie's. Andersen says it is likely, and Klein firmly claims, that Jackie lost her virginity in a Paris elevator to author John P. Marquand Jr. Klein describes, in a scene that begs credulity, how Jackie asked a CIA agent to ship her diaphragm from Washington to Italy so she could sleep with Gianni Agnelli...