Word: torpedos
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...weapon of maritime warfare. David Bushnell, 35, calls it a "submarine vessel," also known as the Turtle. Like that creature, it can dive under water and attack its enemies by surprise. It strikes them with an explosive device that its creator has named, after the electric ray, a torpedo...
China came in for harsh treatment. In some of the strongest language from Moscow in years, Brezhnev blasted Peking for "frantic attempts to torpedo détente, to obstruct disarmament, to breed suspicion and hostility between states, to provoke a world...
...scenery suddenly noticed a 1923 Chrysler touring car and a 1925 brewery truck following the train on an adjacent road. Rival Hoodlum Barney Weiss apparently had dispatched his own welcoming party to greet Big Jim. From a machine gun mounted on the back of the truck, a Weiss torpedo named Charley Ice fired several bursts at the passing coaches. Two other goons opened up with shotguns. Valenti and his bodyguard, Tony Robozo, fired back at the attackers until they dropped their pursuit...
...reformers further charge that New Hampshire's disproportionate effect on national politics is unduly shaped by Loeb, who controls the only statewide newspaper. In the past Loeb has successfully helped torpedo the candidacies of men he found distasteful -most notably, Edmund Muskie, whom he goaded to damaging tears during the 1972 primary-and has managed to force candidates to address issues he considers important. Says New Hampshire Liberal Democrat Walter Dunfey: "We ought to have the opportunity to have our candidates address national, not local issues. But Loeb bear-traps them...
There were other incentives. The Navy had never examined a Soviet torpedo; the G-class subs carried at least ten in bow and aft tubes. U.S. naval experts also had never subjected the steel used in Soviet sub hulls to metallurgical analysis. Test results could tell them how deep Soviet subs can dive, a vital bit of information in undersea warfare...