Word: typhoonous
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...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...
...idea of fighting a war. He kept requesting sea duty, and in a year he got his wish. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in the South Pacific. Although he was under enemy fire in several major battles, his closest brush with death came during a typhoon that nearly washed him overboard; he was saved by landing on a catwalk beneath him. The Monterey was a "lucky" ship, said Ford...
...morale problem among despondent police officers at a Hong Kong police station. He installed two antique cannons at the station entrance, aimed across the street at a "monster" that the policemen were convinced was disguised as a commercial exhibit. When one of the exhibit halls was damaged during a typhoon, the police said that the creature's "horns" had been shot off. Morale boomed...
...Japan, the storm warnings were up. Jane Fonda-or, as local newspapers described her, "Typhoon Jane" -was blowing into the country to stir up the peace movement, lash the resident U.S. military brass and crack a few thunderbolts at male chauvinism. After whooshing through five Japanese cities, Jane had generated formidable gusts of publicity and scattered showers of four-letter words. But the impact was considerably less than tropical force...
...upward by 15%, reduce the number of color television sets, automobiles and other big-selling items it ships to the U.S., pay part of the cost of keeping U.S. forces in Japan and drop trade barriers against U.S. farm goods. The Tokyo press started referring to the Secretary as "Typhoon Connally...