Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spaceship Aniara is one of several making the milk run between Doris and Mars, bearing loads of earthlings in flight from the threat of atomic destruction. A day's flight from Mars, Aniara's steering mechanism is jammed, and the ship wanders haphazardly out of the solar system ("We are always en route to infinity," sings the chief engineer); at the same time, the electronic brain reports the destruction of the planet Doris...
Hunting last summer for a ship to sink, Movie Producer Andrew (Cry Tenor) Stone was no more successful than the average iceberg. He combed the shipyards of Europe trying to find the chief prop for a new film called The Last Voyage, gave up in discouragement and sailed for home. At sea a day or so later, he looked over the water and saw a twin-stack, 44,000-ton liner slicing her way west at 23 knots. "That's the one," cried Stone. "I want...
...ship he wanted was the Ile de France, the French Line's "Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic," winner of the Croix de guerre for service as a troopship during World War II. Stone got her, and last week he was ready to sink...
...White, could still joke on Class Day about problems which were all too soon to pass well beyond the laughing stage. Depression or no, the college years were, for the Class of 1934, truly the halcyon days compared with what lay before. As White put it, "So sails the Ship of 1934 into the Sea of Life. We have spent many happy hours smashing bottles over thy prow, proud ship, even going so far as to remove the figurehead and install a bottle-opener." The bottle-smashing was over, and as President Conant handed out the 655 first diplomas...
...pieces of paper. Many of the cults seek to bring on the new by destroying the old; they deliberately violate the ancient taboos of their people, kill their livestock, stop cultivating their fields. "Sometimes they spend days sitting gazing at the horizon for a glimpse of the long-awaited ship or airplane; sometimes they dance, pray and sing in mass congregations, becoming possessed and 'speaking with tongues...