Word: torpedos
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...though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when he tacked civil rights legislation onto a minor bill and rammed it through the Senate, would torpedo civil rights. And Moscow was alarmed that Johnson, despite the fact that he had argued recently that it "might be possible to relax some points of conflict" with Russia, would scuttle Kennedy's attempts at achieving a detente...
...slowly because of the danger of a cave-in, but eventually and luckily pierced the only spot in the gallery's roof that was solid rock. Just 103 hours after the eleven were heard from, the first of the miners emerged from the "rescue bomb," a sort of torpedo-shaped elevator that had been lowered into the new shaft with two volunteer rescue workers. Fifty-seven minutes later, all eleven were miraculously out, weak but unharmed after 13 days underground...
...only beginning. Though his social life has not appreciably slowed down, he has proved himself as industrious on the job as his father. His working day begins at 8:30 a.m., and even on vacation he runs the show from an office on his converted British Fairmile motor torpedo boat. A U.S. Air Force bombardier during World War II, Schlesinger renounced his American citizenship in 1947 (his American wife won a legal separation from him in 1958). Now a South African citizen, he has no use for apartheid. "There will have to be changes here," he says. "The government...
Even Radio Peking seemed unable to swallow the idea of hostile attack, announcing only that the government was "attaching great importance" to the sinking. The tone of the broadcast suggested that whatever face the skipper had saved in Japan with his torpedo tale would be quickly dissipated once he came back to face the music in Tsingtao...
...MORGAN 4/4 MARK V ROADSTER is a new version of a classic classic. It will delight the old-fashioned sports-car lover who deplores the passing of the old look and feel of riding a torpedo with wheels attached. Price...