Word: luff
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When he found himself at Stalag Luff I in Germany, Greening was "sort of worn out from the going over the Gestapo gave me." There was nothing at all to do, and Greening discovered that "from inaction the guys were going around the bend. So after a while I tried to work up a craft committee, but still some of them stayed in their sacks all the time...
...Luff: tender Swedish emotion...
...thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...
...highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink in the second race, in which he had finished sixth, for fouling Paul Shields's Gull. Shields had lodged no protest; the boats had not collided. Nonetheless, the committee said that Fink had crossed Shields at a marker and forced him to luff...
...race from Foo Chow to Boston between a U. S. and a British ship to win the tea trade. A British lass, the fiancee of a dastardly lord, falls in love with a U. S. tar. Picturesque costumes, plenty of spray and salty subtitles such as "Better luff your needle to port," and "Set the weather stun sails" set the atmospherics flying...