Word: barracudas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lilt, Beck-wee). His job is not to sail the boat, but to give advice, evaluate your skill, rate it for future charters, and briskly pull you out of trouble in emergencies-as when, on the third day out, I forgot to watch the course when setting trolls for barracuda and nearly put the Carib on a notorious obstacle named Montezuma Shoal. Otherwise you sail yourself, needing only one friend as crew, and there is no faster way to learn how to handle the stiff, roomy 39-and 41-footers that are the staple of Windward chartering...
...never found either my high school principal or cliches terribly insightful, but this metaphor seems strangely applicable to Harvard. Its educational ocean is filled with more than the normal complement of sharks and barracuda, electric eels and suckers: and to most people, just how they will find their place in the land of Neptune-in-Cambridge is as mysterious as the location of sunken Atlantis...
Several Harvard swimmers tuned up for Princeton in convincing style last weekend, as they outclassed a regional field in the New England Barracuda Invitational Swim Meet held at Harvard's IAB pool...
...enemies-there is an ample supply-dismiss her as vulgar, venal, vindictive and untrustworthy, a puffball of bluff. Even some friends regard her with the affectionate respect that they might accord a pet barracuda. "The first time she asked me to a party," remembers Client Dyan Cannon, "she said, 'Will you wash your face before you come? I want people to see what you look like.' I was intimidated by her dictating, pontifical ways at first, but now I just don't let her be my mother." Her fans find her clever, charming when she tries...
Cruised like barracuda...