Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously can happen to the best of yachtsmen, because it did last week to no less than Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, 45, the brilliant skipper who piloted Weatherly to victory in the 1962 America's Cup races against Australia, and is favored to do the same with Intrepid this year. There was Intrepid, skipping merrily across Long Island Sound, en route to an easy victory over American Eagle in last week's preliminary cup trials. Then Bus steered the wrong way around a buoy, had to come about -and thereby converted a 56-sec. lead into...
...Mediterranean. Allied vessels bracketed the crisis zone, with the 50-ship U.S. Sixth Fleet on alert in the Mediterranean, and at least half a dozen British vessels, including the 23,000-ton aircraft carrier Hermes, ready to move into the Red Sea from Aden. The U.S. carrier Intrepid, ostensibly bound for Viet Nam, transited the Suez Canal as anti-American demonstrators waved their shoes at the ship in the Egyptian equivalent of a Bronx cheer. An eleven-unit U.S. antisubmarine group headed toward the Mideast; the British commando carrier Albion broke off maneuvers in the North Sea and made...
...same sword presented by Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake after he brought home a plundered treasure from the Spanish Main nearly four centuries ago. Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV did not bring back such a glistening cargo; a more modern type of loot awaited her intrepid skipper on shore...
...Sixth Fleet: 50 ships and 25,000 men led by the cruiser Little Rock and including a six-ship amphibious force whose 2,000 Marines were hurriedly recalled from shore leave in Naples, packed aboard their vessels and sped toward the crisis zone. The antisubmarine carrier Intrepid, bound for Viet Nam, was ordered to tarry for a while in the Med. The British aircraft carrier Victorious, en route home from Singapore, also was ordered to cruise about...
Some Southern Congressmen, one intrepid newsman (Erwin Knoll of Newhouse National News Service) reported, had said that the Administration was granting major concessions on desegregation guidelines in return for Southern support for its school aid bill. Was this kind of horse trading going...