Word: sail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members like to sail, even in chill winter winds. But things really are much more pleasant for sailors in the spring, just as they are much more pleasant for everyone in the spring. And for the racing team, the end of vacation marks the beginning of a new season. Today it meets MIT, and tomorrow, the team travels to Brown to compete for the Sharpe Trophy...
...been home for seven years, said yesterday that he was "very happy" that the Immigration Service was permitting him to leave. He has not yet fixed a date for his departure, but hopes to leave near the end of May, when the first available ship will sail for Hong Kong...
Early last week, as the Aruba passed under the tip of India, the Finnish crew grumbled a strike threat if the ship continued to sail on into "dangerous waters." They demanded that she put in at Ceylon. Gunnar Damstroem, manager of the Re-Be Shipping Co.. which owns the vessel, replied with a Columbus-like "Sail on!" At least, he instructed the Aruba's captain by radio to keep the ship on the open ocean and out of harm's way as long as the crew would permit. Leaving Ceylon behind without putting in to port...
...Conn., with his pretty wife and their five children-Tom III, 11 , Jeannette, 9, Olive, 7, Lucinda, 5, Susan, 2-and tries to lead the happy, solid life of a normal, 9-to-5 commuter. He is as hard-muscled as a 25-year-old, loves to ski and sail. Whenever he can, he sails his 47-ft. racing yawl Palawan on Long Island Sound, has taken it on two Newport-to-Bermuda races...
...Krause's true weapons are training, character and a sense of duty that overcome fatigue and everything the subs can throw at him. For 48 terrible hours he fights his destroyer and directs as exciting a battle as Author Forester's famed Horatio Hornblower ever experienced under sail. In the desperate game of hit-and-run, Krause is frequently fooled by the U-boat commanders, but as he fights, he learns. Ships are torpedoed and men are left to drown because to try to save them would mean to endanger more lives. Moral anguish, physical suffering and fatigue...