Word: vessels
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...huge seawall at the foot of a massive bluff. An 88-mm shell landed right in the middle of the LCA [to] the side of us, and splinters of the boat, equipment and bodies were thrown into the air. Bullets were passing through the thin wooden sides of our vessel. The ramp was lowered, and the inner door was opened. A German machine gun trained on the opening took a heavy toll of lives. Many of my 30 buddies went down as they left...
...world's largest ocean liner, the QUEEN MARY 2, made its first crossing from Southampton, England, to New York City last week amid much fanfare--and gale-force winds. Equipped with 10 restaurants, five pools and a planetarium, the 21-story vessel looked right at home amid Manhattan's skyscrapers. Even Donald Trump must have envied the publicity...
...Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” (DPRK) has amply demonstrated its enthusiasm for selling illicit arms on the international market. In 2002, for instance, the Spanish navy intercepted a North Korean vessel shipping scud missiles to Yemen. Back in 1998 the DPRK was found to have sold missile technology to Pakistan’s Khan Research Lab. (As in Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed this year to selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.) The danger that the regime will now sell nuclear weapons to terrorists cannot be brushed aside...
Those closest to the gears of the global economy were the first to notice the coming storm in China. Albert Stahl, a London ship broker, watched the spot-market price for cargo-vessel leases rise last winter to $22,000 a day for a ship big enough to transport iron ore. He assumed the spike was due to the impending Iraq war. But through the summer the price kept increasing; shipowners even stopped giving quotes in expectation that prices would jump again the following day. Then Stahl began hearing reports of vessels the size of three football fields anchored...
...Number of Cubans attempting to escape to the U.S. by sea aboard a converted 1959 Buick. The vessel was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard before reaching shore...