Word: helming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although coach Edie MacAusland thinks she has her strongest lineup since taking the helm of the Harvard field hockey team in 1979, she admits graduation has taken its toll...
...been at the helm for more than 24 hr., trying to stay in "good water." His eyes dart with worry as the Cavalier passes points that were mapped with sailors' lives: Icy Cape, Skull Cliff, Deadman's Island. Legs braced, he peers at the radar as Second Mate Rod Doe, 22, calls out compass bearings. Haifa mile in front, another tug, Navigator, comes across shallow water and its tow chains drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks...
...Radcliffe PR person. Lord participated in an urgent drive to present Harvard's case to alumni and the media. The Gazette. Harvard's official weekly, was founded amid the tumult as an alternative to the student press, which was seen as radical. Today, 11 years after she assumed the helm of the main news office. Lord still sympathizes with those young people who lashed out at authority while Washington pursued the most unpopular war in the nation's history: "The universities were viewed as a place where students' voices would be heard, and certainly they were right...
...deceive ourselves and assume that the second coming of Bob Lemon means long-term stability at the Yankee helm. Though he is as harmless as a slurpy old Labrad or retriever, and just as obsequious as far as relations with the front office are concerned, the man they call "Meat" will probably be snoozing in his backyard on Opening...
...home his record collection runs to albums of Guy Lombardo, John Wayne, Amos 'n 'Andy, as well as Strauss waltzes, movie sound tracks and martial anthologies. The Raleigh house is compact, and hugged by camellia bushes and Chinese holly. In the vestibule hangs a Helms coat of arms with a Latin motto, Cassis tutissima virtus, that Jesse and Dot have never bothered to translate. (It means "Virtue is the safest armor" and contains a Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them...