Word: jibbed
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...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...
...beanpole (6 ft. 1½ in.) bachelor with a dry sense of humor, Glazebrook writes on foreign policy with full attention to underlying economic and geographic factors. As JIB's boss, he will have the job of telling the other intelligence arms what they need to know about other countries-their steel production, flying weather, rivers & harbors, and the load limits of their bridges...
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...