Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policemen had to carry the terrified torpedo to the squad car that whisked him to District Attorney O'Dwyer. Once his 250-lb. bulk was larded into a chair before the District Attorney, Vito Gurino, slavering, quaking, poured out his confessional. For almost seven months he had had no one to confide...
...night fell, British marksmanship had done a deadly job. Besides the Bretagne, by British accounts, the Provence and two destroyers were sunk by mines and gunfire as they attempted to get away. The Strasbourg, muffled in smoke screens laid down around her, limped out to sea damaged by a torpedo, accompanied by five cruisers and several destroyers. Next day British bombers came over, sank the Teste and damaged the Dunkerque which was beached...
...victory the Italians mentioned consisted of the first action during the war of M. A. S.-motoscafi, anti-sommergibile, "motor boats against submarines." An Italian specialty, these darting little craft armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes...
...great gain for Britain, but they had some bugs. Their plates were just thick enough, in the words of one U. S. naval officer, "to keep out the water and small fish." Their machinery was delicate and no longer new. They had, in the British view, rather too much torpedo armament (twelve tubes) and not enough anti-aircraft (one 3-inch). British ammunition would not fit their 4-inchers, but Franklin Roosevelt apparently engaged to fill them chockablock with U. S. ammunition and promised more where that came from. The British crews would have to be trained in action...
...said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...