Word: braced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play's end. Now the men on deck haul furiously on the sheets to trim sails to the wind. A dozen men grab the hemp lines, thick as a man's wrist, brace their feet on the deck, and haul hand over hand, faces purple with the frantic effort. 'Heave! Heave! Heave!' they shout, as the sail is winched home. Now the wind is picking up, and the ship is beginning to heel over slightly as the sails billow and fill...
...pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...players have a thigh taped and two more wear a knee-brace on one knee. In addition, three more players have been out for part of the season with mononeucleosis...
...without feeling embarrassment for his craft. "Experiencing a kind of publicity hitherto known only by royal families, Presidents, or movie stars, we had none of the official protection on public figures," recalls Mrs. Lindbergh in the latest installment of her diaries and letters (The Flower and the Nettle; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Her recollection is the main theme of the crucial years retold in Leonard Mosley's new biography of Lindbergh...
...pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...