Word: gills
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...Gill's crew from last year, senior Lauren Toretta, became the other Crimson All-American. Toretta has been a jack-of-all-trades for the Crimson, sailing co-ed the previous spring and trying her hand at skippering before teaming up with Gill...
...women's team will be lead by perhaps the most talented sailor in the nation, sophomore skipper Margaret Gill. Gill garnered All-American honors as a freshman by capturing the women's single-handed championship...
...Gill had an amazing year," Levin said. "She won the women's single-handed nationals, which is just unbelievable for a freshman...
...Pyongyang's missiles hit a target? Probably not for a long time. But, says Gill Jung Il, a North Korean specialist at Seoul's Yonsei University, "accuracy is not the issue here. Perhaps the fact that Taepo Dong lacks accuracy makes it a more potent weapon. No one would know where it would hit." It's hard to think of a more perfect weapon for North Korea: unpredictable and potentially dangerous...
...Gill's comment on male-contraceptive ads told of the interesting Roman and Israelite custom of swearing by the male genitalia [LETTERS, May 31]. It should be noted, however, that the most common usage of the word testis in Latin texts is as a term for a witness, as in a court case. Thus an etymologist would note that the English word testicle is derived directly from the Roman custom of swearing by the genitals, and that every man carries his own "little witnesses." (And my parents have been wondering what I would do with my degree in classics.) CANDACE...