Word: tankerous
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...dealer, covered the waterfront for 16 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Her salty language and dukes-up style endeared her to dock workers. She once punched a stevedore in a bar when he compared her nose to a ski jump. Her expletives-undeleted report from the tanker Manhattan, during its 1969 voyage through the Northwest Passage, caused her to be banned from using the ship's radio...
Nonetheless, a palpable, if tenuous, sense of relief was felt in the international community-most of all when Tehran formally pledged "to spare no effort" to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes 40% of the Western world's oil. In fact, tanker traffic was moving through the strait safely, even if on a reduced scale. Concluded U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie hopefully: "The broader risks seem to have diminished somewhat. And I would hope they will continue in this direction...
Fort Drum is huge. You could lose Detroit inside its perimeter and still have room for Manhattan Island and then some. Its rolling hills resemble the Rhineland, and this year's exercise, appropriately enough, involves a breakthrough by "Soviet" forces. Early Sunday the influence of legendary Tanker George Patton is obvious. Major General Joseph A. Healey, 50 (general manager, public services, New York Telephone Co.), trim and tough in freshly pressed greens, tells unit commanders, "These few days are precious. Begin to get angry about your mission of killing 'Russians...
...third of the U.S.'s imports, comes from the gulf. Moreover, since the region holds more than 50% of the world's known petroleum reserves, the economies of the West-not to mention of the Third World-will increasingly depend on the security of the wells and tanker lanes of the gulf...
According to early estimates, Allen caused no deaths in the U.S. "Everybody really jumped and left," said National Hurricane Forecaster Gil Clark. "There is not much chance of loss of life unless someone stayed down on one of the beaches." For a while, a tanker grounded by the storm 12 miles off the coast looked as if it would break up and spill its cargo of 11.8 million gallons of crude oil into the high seas. But the vessel appeared to be riding out the storm. "God was good to us," said Eddie Gonzales, a deputy sheriff in Brownsville...