Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the theme of the play which, at the end of the novel, Grant sets out to write. "It all takes place on board this schooner, this schooner, cut right in half down the middle, on the stage," he explains. "We'll even haul up sail, and everything. Have a wind machine in the wings, see? Does it sound kooky...
There will be a regatta every weekend after that. The biggest ones will come on April 22 and 23 at M.I.T., when Harvard will sail for the Owen Trophy against all the Ivy League schools and service academies, and on the first weekend in May at Yale, the Ivy League Championships...
...breath in Latin), was so successful that he was able to sell out for $25 million in 1928, after which he spent four years, from 1931 to 1934, putting an edge on Gillette Co. (by introducing a one-piece razor and the blue blade) before retiring for good to sail his J-class sloops Yankee and Vanitie in numerous America's Cup trials without notable success; of arteriosclerosis; in Princeton...
Unexpected Opposition. Since both the Vatican and Franco favored the bill, it was expected to sail through. Its author, Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 59, introduced it to his fellow ministers at a regular Cabinet meeting presided over by Franco. Trouble began almost immediately. To show their disinterest, half a dozen Cabinet members jumped to their feet and walked out of the room. Castiella, who has championed the bill for ten years, nevertheless pressed on with his familiar argument: granting religious freedom was not only the right thing to do morally but also the right thing for Spain...
Retreat Home. Bourjaily describes the assassination's effect chiefly on two men. One actually knew Kennedy. Dave Doremus not only sailed against Jack as a boy, but he also shared a ward with him in a naval hospital. The other, Barney James, is Doremus' lifelong friend. The story begins when Bourjaily's characters hear of the assassination. Barney and his wife are about to sail on a cruise with Dave and Dave's new wife when the "news from the southwest" reaches them. An instinctual fear that "something is moving around out there in the night...