Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real struggle during last year to keep things on an even keel. I'm hoping [Davis'] presence will be a positive influence," said Tom Maniatis, chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...
...Macaulay told an American, "Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor." (A foreigner's elegant remark. Others suspect that the Constitution has entirely too much anchor -- too many checks and balances -- to make any headway at all.) The sociologist David Riesman likens the Constitution to the shallow keel of the national ferryboat, on which the passengers keep shifting from port to starboard and back again. One might also suggest the image of a trimaran -- a craft with three hulls (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) that is both stable and fast. Harvard's Paul Freund likes to think of the whole...
Inch by inch, the half-submerged wreck of the Herald of Free Enterprise rose out of the icy gray-green North Sea off Zeebrugge, Belgium. It had taken less than a minute for the ferry to keel over and partly sink on March 6, trapping passengers and crew inside. Last week it took 8 1/2 hours for nearly 100 salvage workers using powerful machinery to right the ship...
...time when all the spring clothes are coming in and you simply have to clear space in the store," says Laura C. Harbolt, Serendipity's manager. "People wouldn't normally be shopping, so the sales keep revenues on an even keel...
...infinite possibilities not only of 12-meter boats but of ingenuity itself. Somewhere along the U.S. line, as Enterprise begat Courageous begat Freedom begat Liberty, revolutionary breakthroughs had been luffing. Then, in 1983, influenced by Dutch technology, a child of the Outback named Ben Lexcen devised a winged keel for Australia II that altered everything. Ultimately developing wings of his own, Conner agrees, "It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science...