Word: helming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands are far from delicate, but the impression of them on the helm is something like that. "Feels more like a bull fiddle today than a violin," Conner muses to himself, and the wheel is some kind of concert instrument clearly. In a continuous search where one-tenth of a knot is considered a quantum find, he is thought to be worth a full knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric...
PICTURE MICHAEL Jackson at the helm of the Millenium Falcon with a crew of Snuffalupagusesque space-doofs--Two things that look like shrunken, tie-dyed Abominable Snowmen, another furry critter with a farting. trumpet-trunk nose (Is flatulence comedy's equivalent of Esperanto?), and a butterfly-winged, cute-as-hell koala that looks like a cross between Tinkerbell and John Madden...
...Crimson will not publish again until February 4, when a well-trained but novice team will take the helm: Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Good...
Although now at the helm of the world's most powerful wartime machinery, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 took an early interest in the bureaucracy of a more peaceful department. His thesis was "The Farm Credit Administration: A Study of Administrative Activities and Techniques...
...somber blue-gray Mao suit. Behind his head, a backdrop of Chinese characters spelled out the legend AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AN ENLARGED MEETING OF THE POLITBURO. The newscaster's report was brief -- and startling. Hu Yaobang, the man widely expected to succeed Deng Xiaoping, 82, at China's helm, had resigned. Moreover, he had quit as Communist Party chief "after making a self-criticism of his mistakes on major issues." Hu would remain a member of the Politburo and retain his post on the powerful Standing Committee, but his party post would pass to Premier Zhao Ziyang...