Word: torpedoed
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...soon it was plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...
...area of destruction. Along its varied route lay shattered Axis planes, bomb-ripped airfields, flaming hangars; charred landing docks, twisted loading cranes and supply ships, fire-gutted and listing at anchor; splintered freight cars; black, billowing smoke that had been million-gallon oil dumps; and the smoking rubble of torpedo factories, iron foundries, steel works, chemical plants and supply depots...
...torpedo did not, however, sink the Scharnhorst, which was last reported near Trondheim, Norway (TIME, March...
...torpedo weighs over a ton. When the torpedoes were about to run, the ship had to take in more ballast to prevent her from "bobbing like a cork to the surface." These extra tons now carried her down steeply. She could not be checked. The needle would never stop. She was well down in the danger zone when she pulled up. "The pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight...
...still likes to go to prize fights, and swears he could tell, from the way Joe Louis was sweating the night he entered the ring against Billy Conn, that the champion was in poor shape and would have trouble winning. And he correctly guessed that Joe Louis would torpedo Lou Nova in the sixth round. Baruch watches all human affairs with his speculator's eye, studying the form, trying to guess the result. And when he is sure, he plunges, with the audacity and icy conviction of a big-time speculator...