Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Give it a good wham," counseled Skipper Archie Robertson. Nodding, Dame Pattie Menzies-wife of Australia's Prime Minister-wound up and whammed. A bottle of champagne smashed across its bow, Australia's sleek America's Cup challenger [TIME, March 2] was properly christened at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Its name: Gretel, after the late wife of Sir Frank Packer -chairman of the Down Under syndicate that spent $700,000 to build the boat...
...green polka-dot bow tie his trademark, Williams also if the of South Africa its present course, "the result disastrous." But unless negs occur, he continued, the "internal force will be to hold the black Africans in ." He called South Africa a which is "technically independant so far as the black Africans are the country isn't indepen...
Slightly fuller-bodied amidships than Vim, the new challenger has a "knuckle" or sharp upward turn on her bow, designed to reduce weight by eliminating overhang. Her floorboards are hollowed out, her fittings are cast of light-weight aluminum or alloys, and some metal parts have been drilled full of holes. Her cockpit floor is purposely curved to provide the helmsman with level footing when the boat heels over in the wind. But her most radical feature is a simplified mainsail control-a single wire, attached to a three-speed gearbox that Payne admits could cause a "chaotic situation...
Needless to say, the Times reviewer might have reacted differently if Feiffer had chosen to depict, instead of the popular misbeliefs that went into the acceptance of the Cuban Invasion, a rather small, bow-tied official who helped plan it. Schlesinger, incidentally, added insult to irony by concluding with a perceptive quote from Feiffer: "if suppression cannot disarm criticism, amiable acceptance can." Too bad prose doesn't blush...
Soupy Sales is a short-haired fellow with a kumquat nose, a moron-the-merrier expression, a crushed stovepipe hat, buttoned collar and huge bow tie. His métier is sick slapstick. He gets laughs by biting off a neighbor's hangnail or hitting an old lady with a custard pie-not in the face, but up under her arm, as if the pie were a small bucket...