Word: tankerous
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...woefully reticent, for in stance, when he encounters another monument, Actor John Wayne. Chapters given to his divorce and remarriage show little more than the rough shape of a life. Only when Gann describes the drowning of his oldest son, who was chief mate on an unseaworthy tanker, does uncalculated emotion break through...
...what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika of Ari's cronies.) About 90% of the fleet's tanker business involves the transportation of Saudi Arabian oil. The anti-Communist Saudis may be reluctant to renew their charters in the future and would have no difficulty in finding replacements for the Onassis fleet...
...weeks later, the Soviet timber freighter Kliloi hove to, also near the Nordkyn Peninsula. It beat a retreat when another gunboat approached. The same day, the tanker Kochetov steamed into Vardo harbor, claiming there was an injured man aboard. So there was?but, strangely, it would have been easier for the craft to return to Murmansk...
...exactly 2:36 p.m., a 38-ton tanker truck carrying 1,518 cu. ft. of highly combustible propylene gas from nearby Tarragona to an industrial refinery in central Spain peeled around the long bend of the highway behind the camp at 40 m.p.h. and skidded out of control. Perhaps already on fire, it crashed into a retaining wall, rolled and, as it exploded, spewed torrential fountains of fire that washed across most of Los Alfaques. Flames towering hundreds of feet engulfed vacationers and their gear, setting off a secondary round of blasts from exploding butane cookers and automobile gas tanks...
...world. But even so there is obvious danger as the icy gauntlet of mountains seems to close in around us. "You want to be lined up right," Hurd explains with a smile, "or you get all bent out of shape." Translation: if the helmsman is not careful, the tanker's enormous weight and inertia will make it keep on turning long after it should have straightened out on a new course...