Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frantic officials make sense out of what they finally decided they had seen. First to finish the 635-mile thrash to the "onion patch" was the 64-ft. yawl Good News. Overall winner on corrected time, for the second time in a row, was Carleton Mitchell's beamy keel-and-centerboard yawl Finisterre...
...more wind than they could handle. The U.S. Naval Academy's 44-ft. yawl Fearless was knocked down and her decks rolled under white water until she finally worked free. The 45-ft. sloop Sirius lost her spinnaker over the side and caught the waterlogged tangle with her keel. Two days later the Finisterre had spinnaker trouble too. Despite an elaborate net of lines designed to keep it from fouling, the soaring, cranky sail yanked loose and fouled blocks at the head of the mainmast. For a nerve-racking hour Skipper Mitchell headed Finisterre back into the wind, riding...
These are, of course, extreme examples. But this interdependence easily fosters such unhappy incidents, and a constant vigil on the part of both school authorities and the intelligent portion of the parental community is necessary to keep public education on a sane and salutary keel. Parents in Syosset, New York, an idyllic little community on Long Island, discovered that the glee club director of one school was teaching his singers patriotic songs of the United States, England, France, and Russia--the last a song written nine years before by a Soviet composer. They accused him of being unpatrioic...
...m.p.h. needed to orbit. But from downrange tracking stations came a warning that the third stage was climbing at too sharp an angle. After San Diego reported no signal at all, Navy scientists sadly concluded that there was a malfunction in the guidance system, that the rocket failed to keel over into the near-horizontal course required to pop its 21½-lb. satellite into orbit, instead streaked almost straight up for about 2,000 miles and disappeared...
...Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris solid-charge missile (TIME, March...