Word: jibbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine afternoon in December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was picked up heading westward in the South Atlantic under jib and fore-topsail, her galley table set for dinner, and not one soul aboard. Why her master, Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his crew and his passengers-ten in all-should have deserted their ship in midocean is still the sea's most taunting mystery...
...audience with the Queen; he wants to take three ships to the New World there to work for the greater glory of the 'British Empah." But the weary pan-amorous Elizabeth, who lost Errol Flynn back in the first film, likes the cut of Raleigh's jib- and his beard too. He is blunt, charming, gay, adventurous and never forgets to throw his cloak over mud puddles. He accepts the job of captain of the palace guard, i.e., the Queens pet, in the hope that some day his ships will go out. But before long Raleigh...
...this week's Seawanhaka Cup competitions, also for Six-Meters, the British challenger Marylette got off to a sad start by snapping her mast in a stiff breeze, while the U.S. defender Llanoria, supposedly left hopelessly behind with a torn mainsail, plodded home to win under Genoa jib and spinnaker...
...finish one job and say: "What next, Mr. Keller?'; Keller sent him into the plants to handle production problems firsthand, to night school to learn how to read a blueprint and run a lathe. Says Colbert: "I decided that this was much more to the cut of my jib than practicing...