Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forceful that both skippers have had serious trouble with their eyes. Conner was forced to consult a Perth specialist. Says ( Murray: "In the early races I was coming in every day with double vision. It's like having a saltwater hose going flat out into your face." Murray and crew now wear sunglasses, which must constantly be cleared of caked salt with squeeze bottles of fresh water. Kookaburra Mainsheet Trimmer Peter Gilmour, known as "Crash" for his aggressive tactics as Murray's starting helmsman, sometimes wears an industrial dust mask to protect his face from sunburns and windburns...
...Excuse to Lose is the title of Conner's 1978 tome, which he modestly refers to as the Bible. In 1983 his explanation for the grandest seafaring indignity since Bligh went home in a dinghy was that the best crew lost to the best boat. "Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be," he says. And now that Conner understands this, he doesn't mind. "I don't like to sail," he says. "I like to compete. I guess I don't dislike it, but my sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score...
...wife Judy wonders whether he is just commemorating himself. "He never relaxes, and we never go on vacations," she says in an interesting reference. "Hell to Dennis would be a day on the beach at Acapulco." They have two teenage daughters who know a little about neglect. "If a crew member will put this ahead of his religion," Conner says, "his family, his girlfriend, his home, his career, then I'll give him a tryout...
...problems other than the temporary idleness enforced by his health. More than most Presidents, Reagan is dependent on the help of savvy aides, which he got during his first term. Right now, though, he is surrounded by inexperienced and unimaginative assistants; one of the brightest members of the current crew, Mitch Daniels, resigned over the weekend. As always, the President is detached from the details of policy and reluctant to crack heads. As a result, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger continue to battle inconclusively about early deployment of SDI while some Cabinet members whisper...
...line will be linked with a half-hour Captain Power program to be broadcast on Saturday or Sunday nights beginning next fall. A mixture of live action and computer animation, Captain Power -- much like preteen action cartoons -- takes place in a futuristic outer-space setting where a crew of good guys (and a token gal) engage in endless scrapes with the forces of evil...