Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...
...shrewd skipper, who made up in ingenuity what his boat lacked in speed, would order his excellent band to play loudly when a rival drew alongside. All the passengers on the other boat would rush to the near side to listen, heeling their own vessel over until its other paddle wheel flailed helplessly half out of water...
...Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird bath. Its head was a giant stopper, and Mitzi figured the body should be used for holding "something fruity-rum, I guess...
...carrier will be the longest (1,090 ft.), and the biggest (65,000 tons) naval vessel afloat, and flat as a flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide...
...During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank...