Word: sail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, there were some initial rough patches. Before the ship set sail, a female crew member claimed she had been sexually assaulted. After the carrier got under way, 15 women left early because they had become pregnant -- 12 before the cruise began; three during port calls, two of those with their husbands. Two women also complained that they had been sexually harassed. The Navy considered those incidents within the bounds of a successful mission, acknowledging that the integration of the sexes in such close quarters was bound to create new disciplinary dilemmas and awkward situations...
...climate his bleeding lungs and Fanny's vapors could tolerate. He tried Davos in Switzerland, Saranac Lake in New York State, a deserted mining camp above California's Napa Valley, and finally Hawaii and the South Pacific. His pattern was to write (and drink, converse, hike and sail) to exhaustion and illness; Fanny's was marital chess playing, countering his real collapses with her vividly enacted imaginary ones...
...part of espionage's wave of the future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep him out of jail...
...leaves in quick succession sail down in autumn...
...member team, of whom only 16 are allowed to sail the boat during a race, was chosen from 678 applicants after rigorous tryouts. Among them: eight Olympic athletes, two women who sailed through hurricane-force winds and icebergs in the Whitbread, a world-class weightlifter who coaches the University of Washington Huskies football team, a native Hawaiian who sailed a 60-ft. canoe using Polynesian wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members...