Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives the Cal-40 an almost prohibitively high rating of at least 31.1 for a 40-ft. boat. Theoretically she ought to be five feet longer, and she ought to lose. Thing is, she wins...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). When eminent public servants begin performing acts of treason, sophisticated Spies John Steed and Emma Peel are sent in to tie a knot in the mastermind-bending plot...
...Actors James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg rose from tenderfoot; so did the latest Gemini spacemen, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General William Westmoreland are old Eagle Scouts, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk was once knot-tying champion of the Atlanta Council...
...regatta, held at the Charles River Basin in a 15 to 20 knot wind, was raced as a team event, in which only two teams are on the water at the same time. Each team has three boats, with the winning team determined by the lower sum of the teams' finishing positions. Harvard finished with the low total in each of its five races...
...docked," Armstrong reported exultantly, "and he's really a smoothie." "Oh, Roger, and congratulations," replied a communicator aboard the tracking ship Rose Knot below in the South Atlantic. "This is real good...