Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then pass them along to the womenfolk in the bedroom. Loretta's steadfast affection for Dillon is meant to be win some, cockeyed and noble all at once. But in this benighted melodrama, com passion and indulgence are the same, and women are the stronger vessel be cause they take their punishment with a tear and a smile...
...lived, not written. He tells him what to do, where to go, how to talk, whom to pursue, when to woo. Soon after quitting his humble job to follow Fabré's precepts, Nicholas becomes wildly, improbably successful. He also becomes a vicious, amoral predator, the corroded vessel of all Fabré's frustration and hate...
...Practically the entire Royal Navy was kept in port for twelve days nursing more than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American transport Otranto was too weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish 16-year-old who had lied about his age to become...
...Coast Guard denies several of Berlitz's specific allegations, including the sudden disappearance of the Queen Elizabeth 2 from the radarscope of a Coast Guard vessel sailing near by in the triangle. There is no record of this event on any of its ships' logs, the Coast Guard says. But even if it were recorded, a spokesman points out, the momentary disappearance of a ship on a radar screen is a common occurrence, the result of rain clutter, sea "return" or other natural causes. Berlitz's claim that several planes have "mysteriously disintegrated over land within...
...experts have speculated that the Soviet Union was having problems with its 5,200-ton Kashin-class missile destroyers (comparable to the U.S. Navy's Forrest Sherman-class guided-missile destroyer). Last week Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian News Agency reported that in mid-September a Kashin -class vessel caught fire, exploded and turned into a burning inferno while on Red Fleet patrol in the Black Sea. Despite a frantic Soviet rescue effort, at least 225 crewmen and missile technicians aboard died in the mishap. It was the most shocking peacetime sea disaster since the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher...