Word: uneventfullness
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Silent Service. No one knows better than U.S. submariners themselves how deadly a sub can be. In 1941, when the proud surface Navy suffered the disaster of Pearl Harbor, a handful of nerveless men had pointed the sharp prows of so-odd U.S. subs toward Japan and written a record...
Despite intelligent performances and a kind of dreary integrity of purpose, Night into Morning mires down in the difficulty of saying anything to comfort the acutely bereaved without sounding platitudinous or inadequate. The effort to dramatize a message of hopeful solace seems even more hopeless, leaves the picture tediously uneventful...
The Tang's favorite assignment was also "redirecting" Japanese shipping. But during a two-day air strike, Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane and his men were given a new job: fishing downed airmen out of Truk's big lagoon. The first day was relatively uneventful: only three...
* In World War I, U.S. submarines were mainly engaged in rather uneventful patrol work. Their greatest hazard: dodging attacks by friendly destroyers and aircraft.
The Thomases had a fairly uneventful trip on their muleback way from India to Lhasa, but in Lhasa things got more exciting. They had the rare enough distinction of being presented to the Dalai Lama, and while the spiritual head of millions of Lamaistic Buddhists had very little to say...