Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time a manned vessel landed on the stern, about one-third of the 882-foot luxury liner that went down on its maiden voyage...
WOODS HOLE, Mass.--Explorers visiting the Titanic 12,500 feet underwater in a tiny submarine named Alvin, fixed a 20-pound bronze plaque to the luxury liner's stern in memory of the 1,513 people who died after the ship struck an iceberg...
...thought the stern was an appropriate place since that's where most died and it was the last part of the ship to go under," expedition leader Robert Ballard said in a ship-to-shore call from the Atlantis II research ship about 400 miles off Newfoundland...
...submarine's mechanical arm apparently was used to transfer the plaque to the stern, said officials of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
...committee is unlikely, however, to alter the words of Charles Wesley, the 18th century patriarch of Methodist hymnody, even though some of his most durable lines lapse into military similes. Still to be determined is whether the new edition will retain the stern admonition of Charles' brother John, the founding ancestor of Methodism, which prefaces the current collection of hymns: "Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or (a) mending them...