Word: battleship
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...hiss and crackle of electrophonic noise, echoed by thunderous sonic booms as the air slows it through the sound barrier. Around it an envelope of ionized gas produces an incandescent fireball, brilliant as the sun, hot enough to vaporize the metal until what's left - as massive as a battleship and some 50m across - drives itself at more than 20,000 km an hour into the desert floor. At the point of impact, monstrous kinetic energy is converted almost instantly into heat, turning the meteorite into a spray of molten metal, pulverizing the ground beneath, fusing sandstone into glass...
BEIRUT, Lebanon—It stands like a giant upturned gray battleship sunk into the ground. No, it isn’t Mather Tower, it’s the burnt-out husk of the former Holiday Inn Beirut...
When it was time to march to the gate, Smarty, a deep liver chestnut standing at a modest 15 hands 3 in., was dwarfed by some of the big battleship horses he would be racing against. But starting from the six spot in a 10-horse field, jockey Stewart Elliott, 39, ran a smart race that belied the horse's size...
...November 43). SNAFU is shivering in an outpost where "It's so cold, it would freeze the nuts off a Jeep," thinking enviously of the folks who have it easy back in the States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific to keep their beds netted and pants up. (SNAFU's pulchritudinous...
...Card says the Administration is guilty of nothing but relying on information that turned out to be faulty. "It would be great if I, or the President, or the Vice President could be all-knowing," he says, " but we're not. I don't know when the battleship Missouri needs to be painted, but somebody in government decides that the ship has to be repainted. I am not as spun up over this as other people suggest we should be. It's hard for me to keep track of everything that's going on at the White House, let alone...