Word: helmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez pilot. The shifting, sandy banks and uncertain currents of the narrow (500 ft. at water level), man-made ditch are a constant menace to the free passage of the 40 or more ships that go through each day. To guide the ships safely through, the man at the helm must be familiar with every foot of bottom and bank, know every temperament of the current. In some parts of the Suez channel, a pilot may even have to turn his ship to the right in order to make it go left because of the strange effect of current...
...that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever the wind shifted a few degrees. Geib jibed, kept running dead before the breeze. The skipper had only one complaint: "During the last leg, every time I took the helm, the wind would die." Unwilling to push their luck, his jovially mutinous crew kept him below for as long as possible...
...excluded that had Stalin remained at the helm for another several months, Comrades Molotov and Mikoyan would probably have not delivered any speeches at this Congress. Stalin evidently had plans to finish off the old members of the Politburo. "Comrades! In order not to repeat errors of the past, the Central Committee has declared itself resolutely against the cult of the individual . . . We cannot let this matter get out of the party, especially not to the press. We should not give ammunition to the enemy; we should not wash our dirty linen before their eyes...
...working cash has multiplied from $12,000 to $342,000. The Internal Revenue Service, which balked at Lias' offers to settle his tax bill-first for $500,000 and later for $1,600,000-makes no apology for allowing Wheeling Downs to operate with Big Bill at its helm. "We're a collection agency," said an IRS man last week. "If he's got the connections and know-how to make [it] pay, swell...
...things considered, the proletariat have the best of it. Nothing can really top lurching about in a motorboat while some M.I.T. freshman at the helm tries to disprove all manufacturer's claims and show that the boat will tip, with the clear spray of the Charles in the face, and a faulty stopwatch in the hand...