Word: sailcloth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volumes, 1,224 pages of rich lore, The President's House, published by the White House Historical Association. A few days ago, Seale presented the Reagans with the first set, fittingly in the East Room, where he noted Meriwether Lewis had slept in a corner screened off by sailcloth before heading west to the Pacific with William Clark...
...locally as the Fremantle Doctor, frequently frosted the 6- ft. ocean swells with a 3-ft. chop described by one Australian sailor as "dirty and short." In all the rough slogging, the assembled regatta lost four 90-ft. masts, a dozen booms and hundreds of square yards of Kevlar sailcloth. In the turmoil, five crewmen were washed overboard and had to be saved. Gary Jobson, of the Chicago-based Heart of America syndicate, declared the roiled-up waters off Fremantle "unsuitable for racing...
...southwest corner of the Utah State Prison, sat Gary Mark Gilmore, 36, freshly shaven and wearing a black T shirt, crumpled white trousers and red, white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
...anguished reaction to that success, has created extraordinary confidence in the Aussie camp. Australia II's skipper, John Bertrand, 36, is already contemplating how Australia will change the rules after it captures the Cup. "If we win," he says, "we're going to make sure all sailcloth must be made of kangaroo hide. Then we are going to fill up a salt lake in the outback and defend the Cup there." After this wild America's Cup summer, stranger things could happen...
...pennants, some on poles that telescoped up to 30 ft. or 40 ft., at the slightest indication of a Finn doing anything. To sit behind a Finnish contingent with one of their countrymen, say, lying sixth in the 1,500 meters, was to be given the impression, with the sailcloth whipping back against one's face, of wrestling with an errant spinnaker in a gale...