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  • HONOLULU -- On the morning of Sept. 2, the 65th anniversary of Imperial Japan's surrender to the United States aboard the USS Missouri, generals and politicians snapped to attention as the war hero who became the king of Hawaii boarded the battleship's deck.

    In history of Hawaiian leaders, Daniel Inouye stands alone Jason Horowitz 2010

  • After building a relative handful of thumping art objects over the years— bikes such as the carbon-spined B120 Wraith and the P120 Fighter, which looks like the receiver out of a battleship's 16-inch deck gun—Confederate wants to broaden its sales with the more affordable $45,000, Ed Jacobs-designed X132 Hellcat, debuting this month.

    The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles Dan Neil 2011

  • Another classic radio drama that has been transplanted to the theater and/or tube, and each time, there are more winks at the audience, more tongues so jammed into cheeks that you need a battleship's anchor motor to pull them loose.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Steve Perry 2010

  • Another classic radio drama that has been transplanted to the theater and/or tube, and each time, there are more winks at the audience, more tongues so jammed into cheeks that you need a battleship's anchor motor to pull them loose.

    Blasphemy Steve Perry 2010

  • My father learned this in WWII as a battleship's officer in charge of the new RADAR system.

    Cheney's fat finger is poised over a new button 2008

  • Leno got onto the topic of climate change after he admitted that Al Gore's documentary was pretty good, and he seemed close to publicly ratifying the consensus held by a battleship's worth of the world's leading scientists -- that global warming is a man made problem.

    Dennis Miller Laughs Off Global Warming on Tonight Show 2007

  • The Senator's eyes tracked her like a battleship's range finder following a moving target.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Its otherwise indeterminate sex was identified by the 'Number One Mum' pendant that hung ponderously across a neck as wide as the Kingston Bridge, the trinket looking like it had been reforged from a battleship's anchor with the chain merely resprayed.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • The relentless kaleidoscopic needle, more like a battering ram now, splattered into the battleship's wall screen with a cascade of tiny balled sparks.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

  • She immediately located the battleship's thought-receiver, which was directly integrated with the computer-brain.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

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