Word: shipping
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...these ships work, eat and sleep not only with their boots, but with their life-preservers on. They live from day to day, and count the minutes from sunrise until they can disappear again in the darkness. But even that darkness has not been concealing them from enemy periscopes, while they follow the coastwise routes. The glow from innumerable house and street lights can silhouette the outlines of a ship forty miles out to sea, and submarines work on a twenty-four hour shift...
...been asked to keep their shades down in lighted rooms, but the results to date have been far from perfect. It may be a nuisance, and it may even block off the evening breeze, but this might be one sacrifice that is worth the effort. It may save a ship and the lives of thirty...
...that, as Harvard hits the end of its schedule—facing fellow Red Rolfe division squad Brown in four games this weekend—it must take advantage of meaningless non-conference games like BC, no matter how much municipal prestige is on the line, to rid its ship of leaks...
...senses that the real captain of the ship is Paul Hogan. It's 18 years since the launch of his Crocodile Dundee franchise, which brought more than $600 million in box office receipts. And while the world has changed since then, Hogan's persona has remained stubbornly the same. Strange Bedfellows is an attempt to tweak that image. "I reckon it's all in the mannerisms," his Vince tells Ralph. "If we can learn half a dozen of them, we'll be home and hosed." Part of the problem is that Hogan's face spends most of the film...
...Crimson seemed anything but ship-shape entering the contests. The roster was all but depleted by injuries, academic commitments and deaths in several players’ families. The team was playing on the road against Ancient Eight foes. And, of course, the squad had dropped four of the last five matches in disappointing fashion...