Word: sailed
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...described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom and was whisked away to the hospital. A quick piece of plastic surgery later, he was fine, to the great relief of his many creditors. "I'll still be able to write checks," he joked...
...perfect world, not a single word would be uttered about O.J. Simpson ever again. No matter how wrong the verdict was, I would be perfectly content to have him sail off into the sunset and not have to think about him anymore. At best, he is a very lucky man, and at worst, he is a disgusting murderer. If all went well, he would realize that the majority of Americans will always see him as both, and he would retreat into permanent seclusion to enjoy his precious freedom...
...hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
Hardly recovered from the Tailhook scandal, the Navy set sail once again on the treacherous seas of a sexual-harassment case. In Washington, court-martial proceedings opened against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...
Randy Newman, 51, has long since trumped Goethe by writing and performing some of the best songs in contemporary American pop: Sail Away, Take Me Back, Dixie Flyer, Rednecks, Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man), Rollin', I Think It's Going to Rain Today. Now he's trying to beat one of the world's best poets at his own game by writing a contemporary Faust as a ferocious musical Valentine to temptation, damnation, redemption and the beguiling persistence of evil. It is classic pop and prime Newman. The tunes are jaundiced, lyrical and funny; the libretto...