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Shipping welcomes two new ship types

Splash24/7 28 Jan 2019

Publishers of shipping dictionaries have a couple of new words to add to the ever-expanding jargon of ship types ... Both ships feature the company’s new LNG containment system, LNT A-Box and both have 24 m air draught ... Speaking with Splash today, Wu said ship orders were imminent....

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Foard grad flies Navy plane into Hickory on training mission

Hickory Record 06 Dec 2018

Kim said Micah was instructing a fellow pilot on how to quickly take off from an aircraft carrier after being notified the ship is not suitable for landing ... Merriam-Webster dictionary describes a “touch-and-go” as, “ an airplane landing followed immediately by ......

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THN ‘Letters to Santa’ deadline nearing soon

Henderson News 19 Nov 2018

With the Christmas season quickly approaching, it is time for The Henderson News’ annual “Letters to Santa” to be submitted ... THN’s deadline for Santa letter submissions is Monday, Dec. 10 ... Watch NASA launch cargo ship into space. Oxford Dictionaries' 2018 word of the year is ... .......

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Passion for community drives lawyer’s involvement

Henderson News 19 Nov 2018

Editor’s Note. The Henderson News will feature several of this year’s Henderson’s Best recipients in the coming weeks. The Henderson’s Best section will publish Nov. 25. Jamie Holmes was voted Best Lawyer ... They would thank him and then they would leave ... Amanda Knox ... Watch NASA launch cargo ship into space. Oxford Dictionaries' 2018 word of the year is ... .......

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77 years ago on Halloween, the first US warship sunk by the enemy in World War II was attacked by a Nazi U-boat

Business Insider 31 Oct 2018

US ships would also notify convoys of U-boats' locations ... "One or more explosions" occurred near the forward fire room, "accompanied by a lurid orange flame and a high column of black smoke visible for several minutes at some miles," according to the Navy's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships....

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Staff drug exposure problem prompts prisons to screen books

San Francisco Chronicle 19 Oct 2018

HARRISBURG, Pa ... The Corrections Department said Friday outside donation groups will no longer ship books directly to inmates. Officials say the most commonly requested free book is a dictionary, so the prison system will provide them to all inmates who ask ... Assaults and drug misconducts are also down ... ....

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Digital deputies — Navarro County Sheriff’s Office utilizes latest technology

Corsicana Daily Sun 28 Jul 2018

Even though this is extraordinary, it wasn’t what the drones were originally intended for. At first sheriff Elmer Tanner wanted to use the drones, which are classified as an unmanned aircraft or ship guided by remote control or onboard computers according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, as a way to locate missing people ... Time line.. Sept. 1, 2016 ... .......

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Books in Brief: Scream All Night by Derek Milman; Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead

The Buffalo News 26 Jul 2018

YOUNG ADULT. Scream All Night by Derek Milman; Balzar and Bray, 389 pages ($17.99). Ages 14 and up ... "Scream All Night.") ... CHILDREN'S ... ... It turns out Bob has been waiting five years for her to return (spending the time reading the dictionary, taking naps "some lasting a few weeks at a time," building a Lego pirate ship "63 times in the dark") ...  ....

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Let’s go to the museum / Looking back at Japanese emigration

The Japan News 24 Jul 2018

The total number of Japanese emigrants and their descendants abroad is believed to have amounted to 2.5 million ... There is also a section on Japanese emigrant communities today ... Another exhibit shows trunks piled up like a mountain, filled with local language dictionaries, clothes and zori sandals — items taken on emigrant ships before World War II ... ....

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Challenges arise when analyzing feelings of guilt

The Bismarck Tribune 06 Jul 2018

It's a common occurrence ... They're like an overweight ship anchor, a flat tire in mud or an overexuberant sorority housemother. Mr. Dictionary says "feeling guilty" is an emotional experience that occurs when a person believes — accurately or not — that he or she has compromised his or her standards of conduct or moral standard ... Do you think O.J ... ....

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The Sexiest Barges* in Puget Sound

The Stranger 05 Jul 2018

*Listen, I know these boats are actually called “container ships” and not “barges.” But "barge" is so much more sonorous than "container ship," and the ... I feel so strongly about this fact that I may petition Dictionary.com to include "container ships" in its entry on "barge."...

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Colleton County had a ‘floating hospital’ named after it during the Vietnam War

Walterboro Live 31 May 2018

But he also mentioned that during the Vietnam War, he served on a ship named the USS Colleton. A history buff, Syfrett wondered if Colleton County had its own ship ... The USS Colleton was named for “a county in South Carolina,” according to the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships ... “The ships would anchor at different places along the river....

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The 11 Best Ways to Make a Difference in Portland this Week: April 18-24

Portland Mercury 18 Apr 2018

Resistance events for the week of April 18-24 ... Free childcare on site ... Base Camp Brewing Company, 930 SE Oak, 7-9 pm, $5 TUESDAY, APRIL 24 Spring Book Sale Portland Books to Prisoners meets every Tuesday to collect, package, and ship books, journals, and dictionaries to people currently incarcerated across the country ... Opportunities and commitment....