Word: blitzen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them was the teak-decked, 56-ft. cutter Blitzen (once owned by Tobacconist Dick Reynolds). Shortly after her nine-man Detroit crew finished beefing over losing an hour by changing to a storm mainsail, most of them got seasick. The crews of the other three racers got sick first, and never did get their storm mains...
Through the brunt of the storm, the well-clad Blitzen made seven to eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...
After putting 44 hours behind her, the Blitzen was becalmed off Bob-Lo Island, an exasperating 19 miles from the finish line. When she finally eased across the line, her winning time-48 hours, 16 min. -set a record for the 21-year-old Port Huron-to-Mackinac race. It was a repeat performance for the Blitzen, which won last year's race over smooth water...
Last week Superman dropped down out of the sky on a mythical European war front. While shrapnel and machine-gun bullets ricocheted harmlessly off his impervious body, Superman called a 30-minute truce on hostilities between Blitzen and Rutland, dashed off under the eyes of bemused soldiers to "expose this war as a mockery...
Said a whimsical news paragraph: "Superman . . . will be missing from its regular space in the Star while he completes one of his mighty and mysterious tasks in his own inimitable way." While Star gazers wondered what Superman was up to now, U. S. readers saw him snatch Blitzen's dictator, Rutland's "warmongering" commander, set them down in no-man's-land to fight it out alone, while disgusted soldiers of both armies laid down their arms, went home to their spring plowing. This week, having ended World War II to his own satisfaction, Superman was back...