rocket ship

In the opening pages of The Moment of Lift , I write about that magical moment when a rocket ship tears away from the bonds of earth and ascends into the sky, an image I’ve carried with me since I was a child watching Apollo launches with my family.

The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?

These people that work for the BOP are not rocket scientists.

After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.

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There was one bathroom on the ship, and there were no showers or beds.

A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.

It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.

My orders ought to have been taken before a single unwounded Officer or man was ferried back aboard ship.

Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!