Word: leewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaped like a thousand-mile boot lying on its side, with Jamaica at the top, the Leeward Islands at the heel. Trinidad at the toe, The West Indies unites...
...making its decision, the commission quickly passed over the small and scattered islands of the Leeward and Windward groups (see map). Then it thumbed down Trinidad because of "widespread reports of corruption," and Jamaica because it is by far the largest and most prosperous of all the island colonies and might tend to dominate the rest. Barbadians were quietly pleased and Jamaicans accepted the decision, but Trinidadians were angry. When delegates meet in Jamaica Jan. 22 to decide finally on the capital site, Trinidad seemed most likely to bring along the fireworks...
...calm ocean "that would make their rescue easier, a wan moon overhead, and across the water the French liner closing in, with all lights turned on to cheer them. Searchlights fingered across the black water as monocled Captain Raoul de Beaudean maneuvered He de France to the leeward side of Andrea Doria to shelter the ten boats she was lowering from the wind...
Skipper Geib and his six-man crew on the Fleetwood played it cozy all the way. Geib stayed to leeward of the sloop Rangoon, took warning when squalls hit her and she heeled over, had ample time to douse his own spinnaker. Never for a moment did he really stop racing. With his light hull and yawl rig, Nick Geib could hoist plenty of canvas, and the race was a spinnaker run most of the way. He never hesitated to use that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever...
Typical of those not entirely pleased was Jamaica's Chief Minister Norman Manley, who at first demanded almost complete and immediate self-government for the new member of the British Commonwealth. But bringing together Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward and Windward Islands, with a population of 3,000,000 spread over 1,000 miles of water, clearly called for some compromise of Manley's demands. So strong was the compromise movement that the delegates even agreed to let a committee of outsiders help choose a capital site...