Word: maneuverability
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Lieut. Commander Tierney, concluded the board, committed a "grave error of judgment" in making a sharp left turn into the path of the onrushing Wasp. This turn was the "sole cause" of the collision, said the admirals, completely absolving the Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault...
Decked out in his fanciest uniform, bloated Hermann Göring was a crashing symphony in green, armed with a spear. Playing Germany's clown prince of the hunt, Reichsjägermeister Göring used to lay down his obsolete weapon, take up a rifle and waddle to...
For the fast-finishing U.S. teams, the rest of the events were easy. Going into the basketball final, the U.S. was a top-heavy favorite to beat Russia, having outsped and outshot the Soviet players earlier, 86-58. But in the final, the Russians reasoned soundly that the Americans could...
¶ At the halfway mark in its twelve-month job of finding out what needs to be done to jack up U.S. medical facilities, the President's Commission on Health Needs of the Nation (TIME, Jan. 14) took advice from Harry Truman himself. It decided to go on the...
When Televiewer Bob Taft saw 1948's Brown trundling up to the rostrum to take over, he gasped. Taftmen in the convention hall were confused by Bricker's motion and Brown's switched parliamentary maneuver. Thereafter occurred the dramatic two-hour debate on the merits of the...