Word: teardropped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white, yachtlike ship with its teardrop superstructure is largely President Eisenhower's dream boat. Following up his atoms-for-peace plan, he proposed in 1955 that an existing ship be equipped with an atomic power plant. Congress did him one better, the following year authorized an all-new nuclear vessel, turned the problem over to the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. The result is the $41 million, 22,000-ton Savannah, which, with its nuclear engine, will be capable of cruising without refueling for 350,000 miles over 3½ years...
Buddha's Tooth. This sort of carnage has for weeks swept Ceylon, an island lying like a teardrop below the subcontinent of India. Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East. What had transformed this sunny paradise into an inferno...
...through the crowd in the U.S. Senate's caucus room, David Daniel Beck had his three-diamond ring turned into the palm of his left hand ("I always wear it that way because the light flashes in my eyes"). In his lightweight, grey, tailor-made suit,* his double teardrop (one white, one red) cravat and his toothiest smile, Teamster Boss Beck was the picture of resplendent confidence. "Are you nervous?" asked a reporter. "Nervous?" barked Beck...
...Teardrop Navy. With nuclear power and the missile, the Navy of tomorrow dramatically begins to take shape. Its atomic-fueled task forces will be able to operate for months, perhaps years, without refueling; about 70% of its cumbersome, vulnerable train of oilers can thus be eliminated. Its carriers will still need huge aviation stores, which can be shuttled between stockpile and task force by high-speed nuclear supply ships (the Navy is nearing a breakthrough in high-energy chemical fuels that may give twice the range of conventional aviation fuels). Ships will be teardropped: stacks, made obsolete by nuclear engines...
...eminence promises to be short-lived, however. By the end of 1956 the U.S. Navy will have in commission or under construction a total of nine nuclear subs. In the seventh of these, SSN 585, nuclear power will be combined for the first time with the revolutionary teardrop hull of the experimental U.S.S. Albacore-a combination that will give SSN 585 a whole new magnitude of underwater speed and agility...