Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the world. Around a narrowing world fraught with fear of a world war the 16 U.S. battleships steamed, all painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers at such places as Japan and Australia, keeping up with target practice at sea, losing not a vessel from mechanical failure, missing not one planned landfall. The Great White Fleet was the unmistakable American word to the world that the American Dream had come to stay. Such was the meaning of the Great White Fleet that T.R.'s last significant act as President of the U.S. was to go down...
Twelve months ago, a modern, 10,000-ton collier bound for Europe could be counted on to earn $3,570 profit each day at sea. Last week the same coal-laden vessel on the same run was losing up to $280 a day. After steaming along the crest of postwar prosperity, shipping is down in the trough of a deepening recession...
...more difficult to chin the inflexible horizontal bar of manhood than do the dull louts whom he outshines in class but cannot outrun on the playground. At first sight, the problem seems ordinary. Should Clemente yield himself to the incitements of his wakening sexuality or keep himself a fit vessel of grace? As Soldati tells it, Clemente's sex proliferates through his veins like the roots of a tree under a marble pavement...
Bigelow, a member of the National Committee of Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, plans to set out for Eniwetok on Feb. 9 in his 30-foot ketch, the "Golden Rule." He left New York for Los Angeles last night to outfit the vessel. The former commander of three Navy combat ships hopes his action will arouse the conscience of the American people to the peril of nuclear bomb testing...
...later complicated by bronchopneumonia. But after his death attending physicians, including Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (sometime president of the A.M.A., president of Stanford University and later Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior) reported: "We all believe he died from apoplexy or the rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center." Close associates of Franklin Roosevelt agreed that his health had deteriorated shockingly in the weeks before a massive cerebral hemorrhage killed...