Word: jib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ghostlike Baruna, the favorite to repeat her 1938 victory, sprang a bad leak half way to Bermuda, but kept her pumps going and got all possible good out of her big Genoa jib. She got to Bermuda first (in 5 days, 3 minutes) but didn't win. By the time all the intricate mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president...
...State Department had taken a chance in throwing its haymaker. Argentines, proud of their national dignity, might unite behind Peron as they had when Cordell Hull blasted away at him. That would mean victory for Peron in the forthcoming election. Other Latin nations might jib at lone-handed, stiff-necked U.S. action. But last week press and unofficial reaction throughout the hemisphere backed up the U.S. tough talk. If the Blue Book had not helped Argentina's democratic opposition, neither had it hurt it, apparently...
Through the brunt of the storm, the well-clad Blitzen made seven to eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...
...were more assimilated than most other gypsy stocks. But progress and assimilation might have a stiff tussle with a people which still preserved its folk wisdom in a six-line catechism: Miro dado, soskei shan creminor kaired? (My father, why were worms made?) Miro chabo, that puo-baulor might jib by hailing lende. (My son, that moles might live by eating them.) Miro dado, soskei shan puvo-baulor kaired? (My father, why were moles made?) Miro chabo, that tute ta mande might jib by letting lende. (My son, that you and I might live by catching them.) Miro dado, soskei...
...McKinnon's parochial publishing formula: they print almost nothing except news about the personal doings of shipyard and aircraft workers. Though they devote a page to intramural sports, they did not mention the World Series. Worker-correspondents contribute items and cartoons at 5? an inch. Some 25 mechanics, jib builders, lathe operators and the like have become columnists, complete with bylines and photographs...