When NASA objected to his naming his second spacecraft Molly Brown, after the unsinkable character of the Broadway play, he threatened to call it Titanic instead.
In their ambiguous relationship, America has used Japan politically as a showcase for capitalism during the cold war, economically as the financier of its budget deficits and militarily as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in Asia.
To restore its profitability Cisco will, among other things, reduce its workforce by no fewer than 8,500 people.Not unsinkable, after allGone is the old idea that companies such as Cisco, which sell network plumbing, would be insulated from the demise of the Internet's frothier firms.
China dreads the risk of superpower encirclement.In the 1950s America contained China from what Douglas MacArthur called America's "unsinkable aircraft carrier", Taiwan.
It is unlikely to go home with just an original-screenplay award for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.But on screen at least, "Titanic" looks unsinkable.
The real-life Margaret Tobin Brown, never known in life by the nickname Molly, bears little resemblance to the legendary Molly Brown, who was created in the 1930s and achieved prominence in the 1960 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the 1964 film adaptation starring Debbie Reynolds.
They often are built with special air chambers to make them unsinkable, and many are designed to be self-bailing and self-righting in heavy seas.
It was also deemed unsinkable because of its double-bottomed hull that was divided into 16 presumably watertight compartments, four of which could be flooded without endangering the ship's buoyancy.
Schary co-produced and directed for the stage the hit musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960) and wrote, produced, and directed several of his own plays, including the celebrated Sunrise at Campobello (1957).
Molly Brown, heroine of the Titanic sinking and the subject of the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown, was born in Hannibal; her birthplace is preserved.
This system, in part, led White Star to describe the vessels as practically unsinkable.
