Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skipper of a Rumanian patrol boat who recently intercepted a family of five that was trying to row across the Black Sea to Turkey. The skipper ordered the runaway family into the cutter, ordered his seamen into the rowboat, and the six roared off together toward the Turkish horizon-and freedom...
...Shields class,* stock 30-ft. fiber glass sloops that sell for $8,000 each and are as alike as a school of anchovies. After the first two days, Boston's John J. ("Don") McNamara, 34, and Darien, Conn.'s William Cox, 53, were so far over the horizon that no one could catch them. McNamara, a bronze medal winner in the 5.5-meter class at the 1964 Olympics, was ahead with 371 points (1, 1, 3, 2, 1). Barely 2½ points behind (2,2,2,1,3) was Cox, who at 17 had won the North American...
Finally, there would be a quick stopover at Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, for a tour d'horizon of the problems of Latin America while his plane refueled...
...usually when they rode to worship at the nearest church, often a two-day journey from their farm. There was no shortage of labor, however. Hottentots and imported East Indian slaves were easy to come by and inexpensive to maintain. Gradually, the Boer farmer became lord of his whole horizon and far beyond...
...language, "fills a need." Sinatra speaks of love in such lines as "She's so deep in my gut, we breathe together"-and indeed, all the dialogue seems to come floating by in bottles from a flotilla of terrible old movies that have shipped out, sailed over the horizon and vanished. But is such a voyage fit for a Queen...