Word: sail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every time me 'member Charlie Water come in my eye. When me 'member them moonshine nights, Water come in my eye. Now me pickney*come born so pretty, And no papa for see, Charlie sail to England and left me- Water come...
...stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government official: "Now we can sail to Greenland all year round...
...East Germany helps make life miserable for the Red rulers of that unhappy state, suffered a series of body blows: one of its top officials was exposed by the East Germans as a former Nazi youth leader; another was captured by the Reds when he went for a sail alone on the Wannsee; a third confessed he had been working for the Reds from the moment he joined the Jurists...
When Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933. Feininger at last came home to Manhattan, to sail his model boats on the pond in Central Park as he had as a boy, and to paint in the midst of war the most joyful canvases of his career. The school-of-Paris cubism he brought back with him helped free his individual genius: he took cubism out of doors, to church and to the beach, using it to animate a vista with the intricate counterpoint of a Bach fugue. Regatta, which seems as much like the gates of paradise as Pink...
...bring the space sailer back to the earth's orbit, the operator on earth could reset the sail at such an angle that sunlight bouncing off would tend to reduce its orbital speed. As the speed slowly diminished, the space sailer would spiral inward toward the sun, eventually returning to the earth's orbit...