Word: torpedo
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...climb the engine section separated, and as the missile curved down toward the sea, two more pieces fell off, releasing a small parachute to check its speed. When the missile hit the water, it freed itself from the parachute, turned itself into an acoustically guided torpedo and darted toward the Skate. If its warhead had been alive, the U.S. would have lost one nuclear submarine...
...going to Japan. Coincidentally, the President's three-day visit will begin on the day the new U.S.-Japanese mutual-defense treaty becomes effective. In recent months, Communist-directed leftists have launched a frenzied drive to topple Premier Nobusuke Kishi's government and torpedo the treaty. To retreat before the agitation of a Communist-led minority would be certain to weaken pro-U.S. forces in Asia, perhaps bring the downfall of the Kishi government and the treaty...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...
They did not mention him by name, but the 13,000 "messengers" (delegates) assembled in Miami last week for the 103rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention did their best to torpedo Senator John F. Kennedy's chances to be President...
...Khrushchev was making the most of catching the U.S. in an embarrassing spot. With typical peasant crudity, he snapped: "The foreign press is saying Khrushchev is only trying to torpedo the summit. My answer is: You and your masters are accustomed to calling a stench perfume. It is your excrement. So smell...