Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consensus: the trawler's heavily weighted nets had fouled in the cables; when the fishermen raised the nets, they raised the cables too, and the cables were broken or cut away to save the trawling gear.*After a 70-min. tour of the ship, Sheely asked the captain to move his fishing operation farther south, headed back to Hale. Reported Skipper Korte in Washington: "There were no indications of intentions other than fishing...
Pettit modestly credits much of his success to Teammates Charlie Share, the hulking (6 ft. 11 in., 235 Ibs.) center and captain of the Hawks, and Slater Martin, playmaking guard who at 5 ft. 10 in. is the smallest man in the league. "Share swings between me and an opposing player and holds the other guy off so I have time to take a shot," he explains. "Martin rifles the ball with such accuracy on the fast break that I get to it just at the right time." But in basketball there is no substitute for scoring points...
Jersey state mediation board. The tall professor studied at Harvard, Cambridge and the University of Aberdeen, did combat intelligence work during World War II as a captain in the Army Air Force...
...Chris Cagle, scoring three touchdowns and kicking three extra points as Yale overcame a 13-0 disadvantage to win 21-13. His playing career never left the high plane of its beginning. In his senior year Harvard entered the Yale game undefeated. After 57 minutes of hard, scoreless play, Captain Albie Booth took a snap from center, dropped the ball, sent it flying through the crossbars: Yale 3, Harvard 0. A football referee in recent years, he was a division manager for the National Dairy Products...
...novel is centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should...