Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the help of the sea nymph Calypso, far-wandering Odysseus prepared to sail for home across the wine-dark sea. But when he had finished his boat, why did he cover the bilge with a layer of brushwood? Generations of scholars have sweated over the passage without producing a satisfactory answer. One theory holds that brush is only a mistranslation of ballast; some classicists argue that Odysseus was merely making a bed. A few despairing translators have ignored the brush entirely. Not until recently, when archaeologists learned to skindive. was the puzzling passage explained...
...sketching views projected through a lens) and a "perambulator" (for measuring their mileage), the Daniells and a retinue of servants set out by boat to sketch Mother India. So adventurous and rewarding were their travels that it was 1793 before they finally got back to Bombay to set sail for England...
Hofmokel has remedied that lack by setting up a Rube Goldberg process that begins when tankers from Tampico sail into Brownsville loaded with residual crude consigned to the Mexican national oil monopoly in the city of Matamoros just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. Unloaded under U.S. customs supervision into bonded tanks, the oil is transferred into tank trucks, which immediately set off on the eight-mile run to the Gateway Bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros. Once they reach Matamoros, the trucks make a wide U-turn and swing back onto the bridge, where U.S. customs officers now accept their...
...Every boat seemed designed to appeal to the feminine eye for color and convenience, even in the sailboats, the last stronghold of the hornyhanded old salt. Most fetching was a 35-ft. sloop-rigged motor sailer made by that master of motorboats, Chris-Craft. With 563 sq. ft. of sail on a beamy (11 ft.) Fiberglas hull, Chris-Craft's "sail yacht" is powered by a hefty 60-h.p. engine that gives it a cruising speed of six or seven knots. In cabins finished in maple paneling, it sleeps six comfortably (two in a bridal suite...
...chances are good that when the passengers aboard Sandcastle Pier set sail, when they celebrate their hero's return by jumping up and down, that you will be grinning as delightedly as they are. Perhaps you understand why the admiral, alone and adrift on a portion of boardwalk, with cotton in his ears to prevent seasickness, quietly refuses offers of help...