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Word: waveless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hansen sets his tale aboard the Titanic in April 1912, when the great liner made its first and last voyage. On a starry night, aloft on a waveless ocean, the ship is seen steaming serenely toward New York City at 22 knots. In scene after scene Hansen describes an eerie quiet: the reader feels no sense of doom or foreboding. Wireless warnings of icebergs are received, without alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ICEBERG WINS AGAIN | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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