Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roarty's bizarre attempts to unveil his blackmailer also reveal the tragicomedy of the Other Ireland. Locals fight the design of a new church-"a cube surmounted by a cone"-and investigate a blackguard who steals the priest's maid's knickers from the wash line. Without the precisely plotted mystery, this might merely be another scenic tour of Eire. But Bogmail is something more: "A novel with murder." McGinley has concocted a different brew in this fine first thriller. Good health to him, and many more of the same...
Randall Dick Battle Ground, Wash...
...that still illustrates its big-ship fixation: it proposes to take two, and eventually four, World War II battleships out of mothballs and fit them as floating missile platforms. That will be neither quick nor cheap. Recommissioning the New Jersey, which has been docked at Bremerton, Wash., since the end of the Viet Nam War, would cost $326 million, but that would be just to get it afloat. Equipping it to launch 100 missiles would raise the total cost to $1 billion, according to Norman Polmar, compiler of the authoritative guide The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. Polmar...
...Alton Thompson took the big black sub out to sea for the first time. The Navy described the three days of trials as "super swell." Electric Boat has promised to deliver the Ohio to the Navy by Halloween. A brand-new $706.5 million Trident base is waiting in Bangor, Wash., and the Lockheed-built Trident missiles-each tipped with up to ten warheads-have been ready for two years...
...drive home in the right hand lane, at ten miles an hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says. "All I have the strength to do is smile." When he gets home, he can't lift his arms above his shoulders to wash his hair; he can only down ten to 12 ounces of chicken and crawl into...