Word: keel
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Conner is the defender thanks as much to his off-water politicking as to his seamanship. His clout with yacht-club cronies led to a new interpretation of the rules, allowing him to replace a broken keel with a better model. Hours before the last semifinals race, in which he would have been eliminated in a 5-min. rout by the mostly women's team aboard Mighty Mary, Conner negotiated a deal to turn the two-boat finals into a three-boat series. In his last finals race, Conner must have cut a deal with an even higher authority...
...University Hall were trashed, evening services were disrupted, and a few more students were dismissed. The letter ends with a resolution to prosecute for "the trespasses and disturbances," but writing later, in the Annual Report of that year, President Quincy notes that the College was once more on even keel...
...been rather inconsistent up to this point," Beachy said. "We have to keep an even keel in the [Princeton] match...
...real both Sara's public front and the inner worries that she is reluctant to display even to her sisters. Sara is a difficult part to play--she is both the most restrained of all the characters and the most important of them. Hartley keeps Sara on an even keel, displaying small flashes of humor without losing the essential reserve necessary to the character...
...director. Winser maneuvers the small confines of the Agassiz stage well, making particularly good use of the high street "set." A common threat to shows as intrinsically ridiculous as this one is that the show will get tiresomely hammy. But Winser manages to keep the show on an even keel, even resisting the temptation to rush through the rather long play...