Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the mailmen, the Crimson skippers reportedly will sail despite most of the forces of chaos. "The only thing that will stop us is wind over 35 knots," said Carter Ford...
...Proceedings of the Royal Society, he began his career as a novelist. Snow says that he had known since eighteen that he wanted eventually to be a writer, but it was not until 1932, when he was twenty-seven, that his first book was published. Death Under Sail was a detective story and it was followed in 1933 by a science-fiction book, New Lives...
...long time, Norway's nautical Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner...
...whom are Chinese. Hong Kong booms with banks and stockbrokers, merchants and money lenders, smugglers and illicit dealers in gold, narcotics and women. As fast as new land is reclaimed from the sea, it sprouts offices, apartments, factories, mills, warehouses, docks. Ships flying a score of flags sail from Hong Kong to the far parts of the earth-Abidjan, Khorramshahr, Miri, Zanzibar. Nearly 20,000 Chinese junks and sampans drift over its waters, and green-painted barges marked with the yellow stars of Red China slip down the Pearl River from Canton...
With the wind colder and the water choppier, the Crimson skippers will not just sail away with the Jack Wood Trophy today or the Sherman Hoyt Trophy tomorrow. Carter Ford, Mike Lehman, John Kimball, and Don Cannon will first have to oust a very strong M.I.T. and Coast Guard fleets before hauling off the silver...