Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moaned the correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph. It certainly couldn't have been much worse. In four races against Constellation, the U.S. America's Cup defender, Britain's $300,000 challenger, Sovereign, did nothing to support her name. She lost the first race by 5 min. 34 sec.; the second by 20 min. 24 sec.; the third by 6 min. 33 sec. The fourth and final race last week was absolutely no contest...
...wear back to the line, and start all over again. By then, Bavier had Constellation off and running, six boat-lengths ahead. Scott tried a few desultory tacks, mostly for exercise, then sat back and took his medicine. There was nothing else to do. Constellation's margin: 15 min...
Defeat by a total of 48 min. 11 sec. was half again as bad as Sceptre's loss in 1958. Britons tended to find a scapegoat in Helmsman Scott, but that was unfair: Sovereign was so far outclassed that it needed an engine. "Damn," said one U.S. yachtsman, "why did the British have to come up with a boat like this?" But Constellation had barely crossed the finish line when Australia's Sir Frank Packer, whose Gretel made a fair show of it in 1962, handed an envelope to Commodore Chauncey Stillman of the New York Yacht Club...
...ever a stiff upper lip was called for, this was it. In the first test of the best of-seven series, Constellation had trounced Sovereign by 5 min. 34 sec., leading every foot of the way around the 24.3-mile triangular course. It could hardly get any worse-but it did. In the second race, with crashing seas and a stiff, 20-knot breeze, Connie went out and humiliated Sovereign, winning by the widest margin in modern America's Cup history...
...third race was more of the same: Constellation winning by 6 min. 33 sec. Only a miracle could help Sovereign now-and Scott was a realist. "What do I think of Sovereign's chances?" he answered reporters. "I expect pretty much the same...