Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second stanza and it was the Green's turn to apply the pressure but the ubiquitous McManama thwarted them. After intercepting an errant pass, McManama sent the puck up ice to a streaking Billy Corkery. The Local Line man faked Proulx out of his socks only to sail the puck over the crossbar...
...disk jockeys) with guns. The deejays tried to defend their quarters with iron bars but were outmuscled by the sailors. The captain cut the anchor, and a small tugboat dragged Mi Amigo into Amsterdam harbor. Charges and countercharges flew; a Dutch shipping inspector declared Mi Amigo unsafe to sail...
Someone had this great idea for Holland America Cruises: for $1,400 per person, the 650-bed S.S. Statendam would steam from New York to Florida for the Apollo 17 launching, then sail through the Caribbean while a band of intellectuals discussed what it all meant. Some never showed up: specifically Arthur C. Clarke, co-author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rocket Titan Wernher von Braun. But Novelist Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools) was on hand to describe the launching as "rather glorious." So was Norman Mailer, who argued that the space shots should have included experiments...
...cannot believe that the John F. Kennedy doodle you pictured [Nov. 20] is genuine. As a lifelong neighbor of J.F.K.'s at Hyannis Port, I can guarantee that he would never have drawn a harbor like that. Any fool who lives by the sea knows that sail boats head into the wind at all times and never go ring-around-a-rosy at their moorings...
Finally, even the farmer's child-wife, played by Liv Ullmann, is intoxicated by notions of unrestricted bounty and freedom. In the 1850s, the Swedes set sail. Ulysses had no more epochal journey than the ones made by 19th century aliens. Seasick, verminous, unable to hold their meager rations, the passengers think themselves in hell without the intervening grace of death. When the survivors reach harbor their true journey begins. Aboard a riverboat, they become aware of the flaws in the fable. Rich folk stride upon the top deck; down below are the new arrivals. Below them are Negro...