Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boat's bellowing speed. He opened up his J35 engine, the same model that drives the Air Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to 180 m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface...
...m.p.h. The boat missed a shelf of rocks by 18 in., rose majestically and hurtled some 150 ft. through the air, came down on a bank of loam and sand that was about the only spot on the peninsula not covered by rocks, skidded nearly into the water on the far side of Pelican Point before stopping...
...boat up for repairs at his woodworking shop back in Kawkawlin. Mich., where he earns a good living by turning out church furniture, enjoys a reputation as the nation's finest builder of wooden-hulled, unlimited hydroplanes. As soon as repairs are complete and the water is right (probably next spring), Staudacher will give Tempo-Alcoa an all-out try at Campbell's record, feels sure she will break it. Says he wryly: "She runs much better on water than she does on land...
...dark and stormy night. The Sea Witch, a salvager out of Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty legend...
...crew deserted the ship when she was obviously in no danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to the radio shack, and blown a hole in the hull, just above the water line, with dynamite? Who had hidden whose corpse in the coal bunker? Why had the Mary Deare made a mysterious unscheduled stopover at Rangoon? Why did the last man aboard insist on steering her straight for the Channel rocks...