Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
...things probably saved the Ti, her officers said: 1) a sailor in hangar-deck control, though he was knocked down, crawled through twisted steel and turned on the sprinkler system; 2) Dixie Kiefer ordered the ship's ballast shifted to make a 10-degree list to port - so the flaming gasoline ran off the hangar deck into the sea; then he changed course so that the wind blew the flames away from the ship...
...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
Roen spent all summer of 1943 in the first part of his salvage-getting 14,000 tons of the ore out of the boat (the rest was left for ballast). Under water pressure the ore had coalesced into a solid mass; four divers had to fight the current to blast it into chunks with compressed...
...Ballast clean and smooth as glass...