Word: shoaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four "accidental Presidents" in this century-Vice Presidents who succeeded upon the deaths of their predecessors-Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge were at the crests of their popularity when they declined second full terms. Johnson and Truman were both in shoal waters. In Truman's case, three Democratic Senators - Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Georgia's Richard Russell-were avowed candidates against him, and earlier that March Kefauver had embarrassingly defeated the President in the New Hampshire primary; just four months before, Truman's popularity polls had skidded to an alltime...
...back to port to replenish. That, too, violated Navy Regs. On patrol duty, he was combative to a fault. In hopes of locating Communist shore batteries, Arnheiter sent the speedboat close inshore to draw their fire, meanwhile bringing the Vance and her 3-in. guns into the largely uncharted shoal waters off the coast to strike when the Reds revealed themselves. Several times, he fired his pistol at "sea snakes" near junks that his men were inspecting; often he fired warning shots across Vietnamese bows with his own M-l rifle when he felt that they were not responding swiftly...
...Quaker Graveyard at Nantucket" Lowell contemplates the brakish shoal, longing for the whalers...
...passed eight months ago, was to reinforce a long-ignored principle: defendants should not be jailed before trial merely because they cannot afford bail. All very well, since many federal criminal cases involve white-collar crimes and relatively responsible defendants. But the law has run onto a prickly shoal in Washington, D.C., where federal courts handle all kinds of violent big-city crimes. As a result, a grand jury has just returned the first bail-jumping indictment under the new no-bail setup. On the second day of his trial for robbery and assault, John L. Barringer, 23, saw things...
Power Struggle. Though primarily a defense contractor, Itek is not bothered by talk of disarmament. Two-thirds of its sales come from aerial reconnaissance cameras and systems that are useful in gathering military intelligence and would be valuable for policing disarmament. A fortnight ago, during the Operation Shoal underground nuclear blast in Nevada, an Itek nine-lens aerial camera went through its first test to see if it could detect the explosion by noting distortions on the ground below. Early results of the test, says Lindsay, are promising...