Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During the next six days, according to his Navy and Marine Corps Medal citation, Kennedy "succeeded in getting his crew ashore and, after swimming many hours attempting to secure food and water, finally effected the rescue...
...designed to follow this skip course (a "damped phugoid" in aerodynamic fancy-talk) is something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride in is a pressurized, insulated sphere sheltered from heat and wind pressure inside the bow of the space toboggan...
...borrowed dirty clothes. Most of the characters have ambiguous attitudes toward sex, money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London versions of Greenwich Village nihilists-a sort of intellectual Jimson weed that sprouted amid the unfilled bomb craters of postwar London. Says Reg, a novelist: "We'll light such a blaze that all their nice little civilised fire engines won't be able...
...lightweight crew, one of the most successful athletic teams the past few springs, last year narrowly missed going to the Henley Regatta in England, and has most of its eight back to try again this season...
...also pointed out that the proposed structure would interfere with community sailing and Harvard and M.I.T. crew racing...