Word: maidening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five Radcliffe heavyweight and lightweight crews rowed back to "the other boathouse" Saturday, hot and happy after five victories in their season's maiden voyages...
...commitments, in part because relations between Washington and Jerusalem are once again slightly strained. Although Ambassador to the United Nations William Scranton vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression on the West Bank (TIME, April 5), Israel was still furious over the cool tenor of Scranton's maiden speech, in which he described the occupation of East Jerusalem as "interim and provisional...
Succeeding the pyrotechnic Pat Moynihan as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, patrician William Scranton described himself as an "enthusiastic supporter" of his predecessor, but "not the same kind of person." Last week, in his maiden appearance, Scranton proved the two alike in at least one respect. By the time a Security Council Middle East debate had ended, the man who was a Nixon troubleshooter in the Middle East in 1968 and put the word evenhanded into the lexicon of U.S. Arab-Israeli diplomacy, had, like Moynihan, provided surprises for everybody, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...last October against the blunt bow of the first giant tanker to be delivered to the Onassis fleet since she took over its management after the death of her father, Aristotle Onassis. The 275,000-ton ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks...
...London and other insurers, certainly: the $50 million insurance money that they stand to pay to Olympic Maritime S.A. would be the largest insurance payoff in maritime history (previous record: $27 million). For Christina Onassis, hardly. The Olympic Bravery had been headed only for expensive unemployment. Its maiden voyage had been destined to end in a Norwegian fjord, where it was to join at least 385 other supertankers lying idle round the world, waiting for oil shipments to pick up. Potential mothballing costs: as much as $20,000 a day. The insurance payment would enable Christina...