chicken switch n.— «All anyone knew for sure was that the nuclear-powered attack submarine had slammed head-on into something solid and very large, and that it had to get to the surface fast. In the control room, a senior enlisted man...
Stokes basket n.— «The former liner Iroquois…is now being refitted as the Navy’s first hospital ship since World War I, bearing the name U.S.S. Solace. Injured men are brought aboard the vessel in Stokes basket.» —“Liner...