minesweeper

• “Bartleby minimize the window on his PC containing his minesweeper game—which he was, in fact, just simply putting the screws to, to put it mildly—right as I gave a quick courtesy knock and, subsequently, walked through the CEO's open office door.”

  Fictionaut: Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done

• “In 1942, at the age of only 21, he was a radio operator on a small minesweeper on one of the ill-fated arctic convoys and was on one of the few ships to make it through to Archangel.”

  The Guardian: A letter to … my Russian half-brother

• “Get really good at spider solitaire, minesweeper and micro$oft hearts. orlo”

  What You Should Do When Your Internet’s Out | Lifehacker Australia

• “Web Zen: Geek Media Zen meme breaks first 50 digits of pi create digital music progress bars pretty loaded minesweeper: the movie mac vs. pc sniper twins”

  Boing Boing

• “William respected his father for having commanded a minesweeper in peacetime.”

  Simon & Schuster: William and Kate

• “I waited about two days, on the beach and in the water, for evacuation and was picked up by a navy rowing boat and taken to HMS Skipjack, a navy minesweeper, which delivered us across the channel and landed us at Folkestone.”

  Robert Cunliffe

• “At the time, he was a Boatswain 3rd Class assigned to a minesweeper called the Exultant.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Montauk Link to '92 Murder

• “We can be sure that these are the British ships that went down during the war of independence," said Võrk, who authorised the use of new sonar equipment by the Estonian minesweeper Ugandi.”

  The Guardian: British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast

• “Sonar searches by an Estonian minesweeper have located the remains of the cruiser HMS Cassandra and two Flower Class sloops, HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian, in deep water near the island of Saaremaa.”

  The Guardian: British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast

• “Well, after about six or eight weeks of minesweeper duty off Staten Island, this, that and the other, I found myself doing what an apprentice seaman does.”

  NPR: 100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw

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