Word: mizzen
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...Savannah and Charleston, where she bumps into Rhett Butler, a wealthy scalawag. She still wants what she cannot have: him. He still plays the can't-live-with-'em, can't-live-without-'em game. Following a sailing mishap, they make impetuous love on a beach. He lowers his mizzen and rejects her once again. She soon discovers she is pregnant and goes to Ireland...
...greatest living hero of the sea, 70-year-old Sir Francis Chichester sailed slowly back toward England under foresails and mizzen, his mainsail furled -out of the 54-ship transatlantic race that began June 17. So weak from a blood disease that he had been virtually carried on board the 57-ft. Gipsy Moth V, Sir Francis was out of radio contact for several days. An R.A.F. search plane, which finally spotted him off the Spanish coast some 600 miles south of England, queried by blinker light if he needed help, and the old sailor flashed back: "I have been...
...single-handed nonstop sailboat race around the world. Eight months later, newspapers reported Crowhurst on the last leg of his voyage making excellent speed and sure to finish with the fastest time. Then came word that a freighter had discovered Crowhurst's yacht, ghosting along under its mizzen but still seaworthy, mysteriously abandoned in mid-Atlantic...
...carved out for themselves sheep or cattle stations the size of Maryland and sent their sons to Cambridge or Oxford. To its critics, it seemed a perfectly preserved specimen of 19th century British culture, like a sailing ship in a sealed bottle-even to the Union Jack at the mizzen...
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...