Word: broadhead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eagerly awaited during the weekend was Britain's Richard Broadhead on the 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina. When Frenchman Jacques de Roux's Skoiern III was smashed by high seas in the southern ocean Broadhead dashed 318 miles to rescue his sinking rival...
...problem all will face, but each man has his special fears. Richard Konkolski, 37, a rugged, bearded Czech, feels that the ice and fog encountered in rounding Cape Horn will be the most difficult challenge for him and his 44-ft. sloop Nike II. Britain's Richard Broadhead, at 29 the youngest contender, thinks that going over the side of his 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina in the tropics would be the worst thing that could happen. "In the rough southern ocean you wouldn't last a minute," is his bleak forecast. "But in the tropics...
...System spokesmen predicted that 98 per cent of the 1.9 million 18-year-olds required to register would indeed sign up BAARD members said the statistics do not matter. "This is the beginning of an anti-war movement to prevent the next war, not just to end registration," Frank Broadhead, BAARD's director, said at Saturday's demonstration in Harvard Square...
...Broadhead's troops tried unsuccessfully to close down the Mt. Auburn St. post office on Saturday, as more than 30 postal inspectors and federal guards teamed up to keep the doors open...
...more subtle tension has been apparent all week. Anti-registration groups have muttered discontentedly about the various Marxist groups that tag along with the crowd and condemn all of American society along with registration. "We don't seek their support, but many fringe groups are attracted to us," Frank Broadhead, director of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, said earlier in the week...