Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fisherman's Congressman," he sponsored the bill that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet off New Bedford-and also to remind his audience that he had cleared the waters for them...
...waters of Rhode Island Sound off Newport, he has driven his crew to a razor-sharp edge. Conservative in his tactics when in the lead, he will stop at nothing when he is behind. The final race last week against Enterprise was typical. Trailing at the final buoy, Turner drove his crew through 19 tacks on the last 2½mile leg. Each of the grueling changes in direction and shifts in the set of the sails was perfectly timed by Turner and flawlessly executed by the crew; at the finish, a 17-second deficit had become a 43-second...
...heavies started quickly, grabbing a length's lead by the 500-meter mark. There, a quartering tailwind drove the race close to the Cambridge riverbank, and bowman Ruth Colker lost half of her oarblade on mooring buoy...
...been working hard all week on high cadence pieces and getting in shape, and it took a second settle to get the boat under control." Diane Hickman, at number five, said yesterday. "It seemed to be coming together until we hit the buoy, and that threw off the balance...
...final match of the day, Princeton's Bryan Miller carded a 76 to buoy his team to victory, as Harvard's number seven man Peter Smith incurred a ruinous triple bogey on the way to an 80. Yale finished a distant third, eight strokes off the Crimson's pace...