Rickover
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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During Carter’s interview, Rickover asked whether he had done his best at Annapolis.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024
There was, however, a christening ceremony for the USS Hyman Rickover in August 2021.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2022
How is it that Rickover also had a bat in his office?
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
Rickover spent more than 60 years on active duty, making him the nation’s longest-serving naval officer.
From Washington Times • Jul. 30, 2021
Almost eight decades later, in 1976, the American admiral Hyman Rickover concluded that the battleship was destroyed by the spontaneous combustion of coal in a bunker next to ammunition.
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019
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