Word: helm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little destroyer lurched as her helm was put over and the engine-room annunciator called for full speed ahead. Her alarm gongs clanged "General Quarters." Before the clangor had subsided, the men off watch-tin-helmeted officers, sailors, messboys-had reached their stations...
...political timbers of some of his delegates. There was some question about whether he was really navigating-or whether he was acting under sealed orders. In any case, war between Germany and Russia called for a new compass course from Skipper Curran. Thereupon he flung N.M.U.'s helm hard astarboard, neatly following the latest zig in the Communist Party zigzag...
Late last week, after prying deep into Schram's wholesome background, beaten Wall Street almost felt confident again. Two Stock Exchange seats sold for $27,000, up $7,000 from the previous sale. With a farmer at the helm, anything could happen-and things could hardly get worse...
...Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm of the church, the political threat to Christianity is minimized...
...turbulent waters of the Charles, the Yacht Club this year plans to give a shore school course in the elements of sailing, and will require that all members of the organization, whether they have taken the course or not, pass an examination before they are turned loose at the helm of any of the dinghies available at the M. I. T. pavilion...