Word: wouk
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From Herman Melville's Captain Vere (who hanged Billy Budd) to Herman Wouk's Captain Queeg (who rolled ball bearings during the Caine mutiny), naval literature has teemed with tales of rumbustious skippers and mutinous crewmen. Of late, the U.S. Navy has pitched and rolled to a real-life story that has all the elements of legend: a destroyer in war-torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy...
...providing thrust, the ramjet needs an inlet shape to generate its own shock wave, which will slow passage of air through the combustion chamber to a subsonic flow. Above 4,000 m.p.h., however such an inlet design could cause excessive temperatures and pressures in the combustion chamber, and thrust wouk be drastically reduced...
...Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 3. Hotel, Hailey (2) 4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3) 5. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 6. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (6) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. The Ambassador, West (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. Night of Camp David, Knebel...
...Stop the Carnival, Wouk...
...STOUT (President) ABE BURROWS ELIZABETH JANEWAY HERBERT MITGANG LEO ROSTEN JEROME WEIDMAN THEODORE H. WHITE HERMAN WOUK The Authors League of America, Inc. New York City...