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Word: vessels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March Touré received a shipment of arms from Czechoslovakia that included 3,000 rifles and automatic weapons. Last week another shipment (the third) arrived on a Polish vessel. When Paris expressed alarm at the deals, Touré angrily denounced the "hostile attitude of French diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUINEA: Left Turn | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...hand to record it, in all its complexities. The captain praised him after the battle, saying, "By his alert, active, analytical work in recording the events of the action; by his keen fighting spirit . . . ;and by his calm manner he contributed to the general and overall performance of the vessel...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: World War II: Faculty Plays Key Role | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...KNOT-SHIP design has been ordered from Grumman Aircraft by the Maritime Administration. The 100-ft. test craft, weighing between 50 and 100 tons, will use hydrofoils, completely submerged winglike structures that raise the vessel's hull from the water, cut down resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--The official Soviet news agency Tass tonight described a U.S. Navy boarding of a Soviet fishing vessel as an unlawful action, but the State Department indicated it won't apologize...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Macmillan Calls Parley Valuable, Has Little Hope for Berlin Truce; McDonald Favors Shorter Hours | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...Intelligence heard that she had lived in the west central Pacific, interviewed her. To the Navy's delight, Miss Little rooted out other items in her collections-maps, charts and the journals she carefully kept for the board of missions on trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep the channels were and how wide the sandy beaches, where in the crystal water lay hidden coral reefs and where lay clear passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: A Nice Old Lady | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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