Word: jib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...Free and Easy," the second feature, isn't quite so full of jib-sails, topsails, fo's'l's and "lower the mainsail's," but it's a good deal livelier and less conducive to napping in the loges. Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey manage to amuse both themselves and the audience; and they do it without the benefit of a single Hollywood Indian...
...engineer Count, married him, moved to Paris and set up a salon for journalists and politicians. Helene de Fortes was short, homely, plain, dark, nervous, jealous and not very bright; but she apparently had something for which Frenchmen would trade every grace. Widowed two years ago, she set her jib for a bright financier named Paul Reynaud. Soon Reynaud, who till then had been a good family man, separated from his wife. Under the administration of Georges Bonnet (then Minister of Justice) the divorce laws were altered and the financier expected to be free within one year instead of three...