Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trials was Paul V. Shield's Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, which managed to win only four races, suffered a crowning indignity when her 90-ft., extruded aluminum mast snapped during a race with Nefertiti, pitching two crewmen overboard and sending the heavy boom crashing down inches from the head of Designer Olin Stephens. But nobody counted Columbia out; many of her losses were by a margin of seconds. Even hapless Easterner, which won only one race, was not ready to quit, with Olympic Champion George O'Day at the helm and a full...
...Boom, by George Mandel. In the darkness of modern combat, a symbolic company of infantrymen meet death by candlelight...
...down barriers that their fathers once thought insuperable; thousands of new schools are being built, and foreign languages are being seriously studied by a growing percentage of students. Economic progress as such always leaves more to be done and is always subject to setbacks. Western Europe's spectacular boom reaches beyond economics by having given its people a new sense of self-confidence; instead of the old feeling of superiority to the U.S., based on past culture, there is now a sense of equality based on current achievement. Europe's resurgence, which only yesterday seemed a miracle, today...
...surgery. Before Dad can get the luggage stowed away ("My friends all call me Redcap"), his two married daughters show up with broody broods in tow. and in obvious need of a good divorce counselor. One little grandson, who seems to have been born under a rock, calls Stewart "Boom-pah," and Boom-pah calls him a "little creep," though creepy would be more exact...
...Boom, by George Mandel. This war story makes a point that others fudge: a soldier in combat can often be close to insanity...