Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides. Last week, on the fifth try, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri heaved a metallic sigh and slipped off the Chesapeake Bay shoal where she had sat, unbudging, on her big broad bottom, for 15 days. The band played Anchor's Aweigh and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. In drydock, the damage proved slight. This week, haggard Captain William D. Brown, whose troubles were just beginning, would have to explain to a court of inquiry how, on his first trip as her commanding...
From 1932 to 1938, he said, he had had a regular flow of documents from Communist sympathizers not only in the Department of State but in the Bureau of Standards, the Navy and at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. He had had them photo graphed on microfilm and had turned over the films to the Soviet spy apparatus. He said he had had two sources in the State Department: one, it developed later, was Henry Julian Wadleigh; the other, he said, was Alger Hiss...
Casanova was having his troubles. The Communists have recently lost ground in French labor unions. Not a single important French union is now under firm Communist control. The one most nearly under the Red thumb is the longshoremen's union...
...clock: Gov. 155, Government Regulation of Industry, meets in Emerson D. Cherington is an excellent showman, and the course is popular, but he does not go very deep. Ec. 161 covers more or less the same ground much more completely, although with considerably less sparkle. Also at 10, Music 1 convenes in Paine Hall. A full course, Music cannot be entered now, but lectures and especially the listening hours are ideal for auditors. This term's work begins with Beethoven and runs through to the moderns. The listening hours, in Paine Hall Auditorium, are as follows: Monday at 9, Tuesday...
...they go down better straight, as in "Fighting Lady" or "Action in North Africa," than when watered down with histrionics, as in "Sands of Iwo Jima." And if you're interested in something a little more subtle than isolated clips of a battleship shelling a beach, go see "Battle-ground...