Word: saile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quips with Castro for hours, mentioned casually that it was a shame that the African Pilot would return to Miami empty. Castro said he would fill it with 1,000 relatives of the prisoners, called it his "Christmas bonus." Some bonus. As it turned out, 922 were permitted to sail-but only after signing over all their property and possessions to Castro's Communist government...
...York Attorney James B. Donovan-who had been coordinating his negotiations for the prisoners' release with Bobby Kennedy-announced that he had finally gotten the unpredictable dictator at long last to sign an agreement. The terms: a freighter, carrying a cargo of drugs, would sail for Havana; the Bay of Pigs prisoners would be shuttled back aboard four jetliners to U.S. soil before Christmas. In Florida, where thousands of wives and children waited, smiles flickered on faces long drawn by dread...
...faculty of 96 meets quarterly to review students' work and report the credit hours they deserve. Classes are small; electives are few. Science and humanities get equal stress in such ways as a senior seminar that attempts a whole vision of learning. Under a new plan, students can sail through in three years or plod through in five. They still face stiff junior-year qualifying exams, must write senior theses. Recent titles range from "Metal Ion Inhibition of Ribonuclease" to "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Instressing His Inscape...
...thou at home without or tide or gale, Canst in thy map securely sail... And from thy compast taking small advice Buy'st travel at the lowest price...
...more hungry for revenge. The lieutenant does what he can to mitigate the tension, but only the landfall at Tahiti prevents an explosion. There, while the seamen cultivate breadfruit trees and brown-skinned beauties, the tension relents and even the captain learns to hula. But when the Bounty spreads sail for Jamaica, Bligh's brutalities resume. To save water for the breadfruit trees, he denies it to the crew. In a rage the lieutenant takes over the ship, sets Bligh and his supporters adrift in an open boat. But then, realizing the ruin he has brought upon himself...