Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rolled across the country at the end of this summer, in search of new experiences and sights and sounds alien to the East Coast of my childhood, I kept one line from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in mind, hoping it would ring as true for me as it had for Nick Carraway. "I was simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life," Fitzgerald wrote...
Yesterday at the Coast Guard event, freshman Shawn Doyle, a Florida native, boldly established himself in intercollegiate sailing by finishing fourth overall in his single-handed eliminator. He too will compete at New Englands along with his captain Strothman...
Along with the Nevin's Trophy team event was the Coast Guard eliminations, a regatta geared towards individual finishes. In a ladder-draw-style event, captain Pete Strothman, an All-America selection, took first in his single-handed eight-race event. Strothman won the event handily, justifying his billing as a national contender...
Lloyd's of London refused to offer odds; the trip was too dangerous. Then ships in the Atlantic radioed sightings, and after 28 hours of flight, the Spirit of St. Louis crossed Dingle Bay on the southwest coast of Ireland; Lloyd's finally quoted 10-3 against Charles Lindbergh's making Paris. Six hours more, and he touched down at Le Bourget. A crowd of 150,000 engulfed the little plane like a tidal wave...
...possible explanations for Clinton's obtuseness, including the notion that he's some sort of addict, don't go over well at the construction site. A former Coast Guard sailor wonders if the President isn't a narcissist, prone to delusions of invulnerability. Someone else thinks he wanted to get caught--the revenge of his guilty Baptist conscience, perhaps. Maybe all the talk at church of a final heavenly judgment compelled him to want to speed up the process...