Word: transom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depth finders operate on the same basic principle. A control box transmits an electronic pulse to a ceramic crystal called a transducer that is mounted to the boat's transom or hull. The transducer converts the pulse into a high-frequency sound wave, or "ping," which it beams downward. When the ping strikes the bottom, or hits a fish, it bounces back up. These echoes are picked up by the transducer and sent to the control unit for processing. Since sound travels through water at a known rate, depth is readily calculated from the time elapsed between transmission and reception...
...wine into the hull of the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial (Buckley discourses widely and brilliantly on many points of big- league sailing, although not, unfortunately, on punning for boat names, a practice that can be winsome in passing conversation but wincemaking when emblazoned permanently on a classy transom...
...staff member of the Albosta subcommittee doubts that a Reagan campaign spying operation will be found. Said he: "It's gone beyond something just coming over the transom, but we don't see it heading into a major organized effort." Meantime, for the majority of the press, most Democrats and those Washington officials not directly involved, the "Who Stole the Briefing Book?" story remained primarily a summertime diversion from their usual heavy arguments over nuclear arms control and what to do about El Salvador...
...taking away his watch and glasses, and denounced Khomeini as a "killer." The militants blindfolded Metrinko, punched and slapped him, and put him in an isolation cell. For two weeks he slept on its bare floor with no heat or light, except for what little came over the transom of the steel door...