Word: jibed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With two boats ahead now and the only possibility left of tying Navy by placing second, Marshal threw caution to the winds and tossed on the big blue and white spinnaker. After rapidly catching the Babson boat, he ordered a jibe. Although the boom rode up the mast in the high wind, four of the crew barely held it down
...wish he were kinder to tourists, to modern arrangement of pictures in the Uffiizi, to the motorcycles in Ravenna. These, after all, are the facts of life for modern Italy. Berenson seems to resent them for purely egocentric reasons: because they distract his own concentration, or in some way jibe with his memories of the past...
...when he learned he had won after all. Though the timers all put Larson ahead, two of the three judges claimed they saw Devitt's hand slap the wall first. Since the judges' decision is what counts, the victory went to the Aussie. To make the facts jibe with their opinions, officials simply changed Larson's clocking of 55.1 to 55.2, the same time turned in by Devitt. A U.S. protest was disallowed. Said Devitt frankly: "I felt Larson...
Patrolman Philip Colwell was making a routine check of the treatment and disposal of stray dogs in New Haven when he found that the numbers did not jibe. Yale University's School of Medicine had bought as many as 1,700 dogs for research in a single year, all from nearby towns. But these communities had never reported having disposed of so many healthy strays in this manner. Colwell went off on a hot scent that led him, with a bloodhound assist from Connecticut state police, to the biggest dognapping scandal in the state's history. Last week...