Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology. At another meeting, Nitze exploded, accusing Perle of "talking rubbish," raising "phony" problems and trying to "torpedo" the negotiations...
Admiral Hyman Rickover may be in retirement, but his torpedo-like salvos against shipbuilders who rip off American taxpayers are still exploding. About six months before he finally left the Navy in January 1982 after 59 years of cantankerous service, Rickover, now 83, blasted four contractors in particular for making what he called "excessive profits" on their work for the Navy. A House committee asked the General Accounting Office, which is the investigative arm of Congress, to find out whether Rickover was right...
...groups and high school. He enlisted in the Navy in the summer of 1942 but flunked the physical because his brilliant blue eyes turned out to be colorblind. He ended up in the Air Corps and spent most of the next three years as a radioman in torpedo planes and in submarine patrols off Guam, Hawaii and Saipan. He saw no serious combat. He says, "I got through the whole war on two razor blades...
Some 40 patrol boats, torpedo boats, minesweepers, surveying ships and buzzing police launches joined in the hunt. Many of the pursuers carried highly sensitive sonar equipment. Overhead clattered ten antisubmarine helicopters, which lowered hydrophones into the water like stethoscopes. When a telltale noise was heard, a chopper or a boat would drop depth charges in an attempt to force the sub to the surface. The waters of the bay rose in explosive plumes, and the air was filled with the smell of dead fish...
...Galilee, went to Cana, walked the hills around Capernaum, studied the excavations at Jericho, worshiped at Bethlehem and swam in the Dead Sea. Rosalynn and I also walked along the escarpments of the Golan Heights, traveled slowly down the entire length of the Jordan River, rode the torpedo boats at Haifa and viewed a parade at a military training center at Bethel...