Word: keel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...port. As I attempted to get to the conning tower over decks slippery with oil and water, I felt the shock of another very heavy explosion." Kenworthy gave the order to abandon ship. He barely made it over the rising starboard side as the giant battleship began to keel over, trapping more than 400 crewmen below decks...
...terms of muscle power and barked knuckles is impressive. Despite its size, two people can rig the sails of the Procyon in about five minutes; normally, readying a boat this large can take half an hour for a crew of eight. Slick aerodynamic design and a hydraulically powered keel let the Procyon sail at speeds of up to 15 knots: roughly 15% faster than a conventionally designed boat of comparable size. Automatic winches furl and unfurl the Procyon's Kevlar mainsail and jib horizontally, at a finger's touch, without human assistance. The unique, sculptured boom eliminates the need...
...Procyon is self-tacking: as the wind pushes the jib sail in a new direction, its hardware slides along a track located on the deck, forward of the cockpit, without needing any special attention from captain or crew. Underneath it all is a 13,000-lb. winged keel, which can be moved by hydraulic power from a vertical down position to as much as a 25 degrees slant to either side. That and a two-ton water-ballast system greatly improve the vessel's stability...
...attention because it wipes out traditional school districts and replaces them with a system in which parents list three of the city's 14 elementary schools as their top choices. Students are then assigned to one of the three, provided that the racial balance of the school remains on keel...
...married an architectural historian and went as far afield as Samarkand. Occasionally her work strikes an apocalyptic, Kandinsky-like note. One example is the great Painterly Construction of 1920, with its jagged black shapes and whirling cones of force playing across a landscape in turmoil. But generally the keel of feeling is even, the track straight as an arrow. Here was a determined young painter following her nose, with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling...