Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dallas, Neiman-Marcus has another idea: if the air breeds black lungs, lift sail. For a fitting departure, the store will provide a $588,247 ark, "the perfect retreat from come-what-may." At 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits deep and 250 cubits long, it is slightly smaller than the biblical proportions, but still large enough to accommodate pairings of 92 mammals, ten reptiles, 26 birds, 14 fresh-water fish and 38 insects on its kennel deck. The species are presumably those that Neiman-Marcus deems necessary for setting up life in some as yet unpolluted corner of the globe...
...effort at compromise with today's youthful fashions. He likes semiclassical music and Winston Churchill, and privately and publicly projects total sincerity. He relaxes by roaming around the woods near his home with his wife Muffet and their four young children. Occasionally he travels to Florida to sail (he was in the Navy from 1953 to 1956) and waterski...
Harvard qualified for the Atlantic Coast Invitational at King's Point College November 21 and 22 where six New England and six Middle Atlantic area colleges will compete. The Crimson will also sail for the Angston Trophy in Chicago at Thanksgiving for the first time in 15 years...
Foster's passing was not as miserable as the statistics made it look. While it must have been frustrating for Freeman, Pete Varney, and Bill Craven to watch passes sail over their heads, Foster was robbed of two touchdown passes...
...gripes -some general, some highly personal -about military life. Quietly and sympathetically, Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt responded to each. Clarence Burris, a black cook whose wife had died of cancer and whose three daughters now need his presence, pleaded for a shore assignment, since his ship was about to sail. Zumwalt immediately ordered aides to arrange a change of duty. As he stepped from the stage, the sailors rose and cheered. A tall petty officer blocked his path. "Thank you, Admiral," he told Zumwalt, "for treating us like people...