Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines, in fact, enjoy subsidies and tax breaks from their governments. Shipowners can cut costs by reducing crews and paring down provisions when the passenger load is light. But on some runs, 93% of the berths must be occupied for the shipowner to break even, and a half-empty vessel can spell disaster...
...Much of the Northern wing turned to premillennialism, the belief that Christ's return was imminent and that society would inevitably get worse before it occurred. By the late 1800s, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody literally preached a lifeboat ethic: "I look on the world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Save all you can.' " Biblical conservatives withdrew from activism. Evangelical Historian Timothy Smith describes this as the "Great Reversal," which persists to the present day. White Evangelical leaders, for example, did little to support civil rights legislation in the 1960s...
...JUSTICE DEPARTMENT had come to regard the Richard Helms affair with all the warmth that a ship's captain reserves for a school of barnacles firmly attached to a vessel's hull: a nuisance--if a major one--that would pop into public view every so often, only to submerge once again below the Koreagate and Bert Lance headlines...
...paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with a line from a vessel foundering on the Nova Scotia coast, helping rescuers haul passengers and crew to safety. Newfoundlands are still used as lifeguards on beaches in France. Their fitness for such work was proved on no less a near drowning victim than Napoleon...
...return, the gondolier was supposed to devote himself to writing. No volumes appeared. In the fall of 1913, his sponsors gone and his vessel ship wrecked, still promising great projects, Rolfe died alone in his Venice flat...