Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Properly girt about with wash-and-wear shirts, Soby sets sail for Venice and is set upon by a pair of memorable literary harpies: Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, a mosquito-sized Winnetka music teacher who perennially knits a succession of moose-sized sweaters, and Miss Winifred Throop, a mountainous ex-headmistress who wears a red wig as proudly as she does her overgrown schoolgirl's faith in True Love...
After a two-week rest, Skipper Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher and Weatherly's ten-man crew got together again in Newport at week's end. Mosbacher watched Gretel under sail after the mast shift and politely pronounced her "very good, very fast" in tacking and jibbing drills. Then he set about the business of putting Weatherly back in the water for the final days of practice on the sail trimming and flying starts that made the yacht unbeatable in the trials...
German nudists address each other as Lichtfreund (friend of light), scorn normal bathing areas where clothes are worn as "textile" beaches. Broad-beamed male and female nudists delight in taking group setting-up exercises, sail, water-ski and throw cocktail parties in the buff. The nudists' chief foe is the Roman Catholic Church, which says that nude bathing beaches "are places where immorality is furthered.'' Light friends vehemently deny this charge, say that the reason for the rise in nudism is that "we feel less observed when we're naked." Elsewhere in Europe this summer, Teutonic...
...help celebrate the Crystal Palace Exhibition (the first world's fair), members of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron...
Desperately, Robertson eased sail; relentlessly, Gretel increased her margin-sliding through the heavy seas with ghostly grace. She stood high, she footed fast, she simply could not be caught-even by accident. Just one-quarter mile from the finish line, Gretel's light blue Genoa jib tore loose from its main clew and flopped overboard. But the damage was quickly repaired and Gretel swept triumphantly past Brenton Reef lightship, with Vim trailing in her wake...