Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aged fellows getting too lazy to handle a schooner." But schooner men take one look at Endymion's circus-tent mainsail and incredible mast and feel faintly ill. . . . Anyone who has seen the Douglas yacht charging home from Catalina of a Sunday afternoon, romping past other craft, both sail and power, knows that her owner sails her like a man possessed...
Beanie Baldwin's new title is Area Director of Economic Operations in Italy. Last week he said he had no notion of: 1) the Italian language, 2) the approximate date he would sail, 3) the exact duties of his new job, 4) his staff...
...exclusively of national military units which either take orders directly from an international boss, or else take such orders in directly, through their own national governments acting as agents of the international boss. (Much the same thing, since no national army or navy would ever march off or sail off without the consent of its national government.) This was the League of Nations model which failed, although not because of its mechanical setup. This is the model, if any, which the world is likely to see again after the present war. Mechanically, it varies little from an old-fashioned multipartite...
They picked Richmond, Virginia, because they liked the sound of the name in Russian; and shortly afterwards they set sail. They had only been here a little while when all Russia was turned upside down by the Russian Revolution, and so they decided not to go back...
American Mural. In Boise, Idaho, the FBI hoped that somebody would catch Leo Laverne Leroy, suspected parole violator, with his shirt down. His identifying tattoos: two American flags, a rising sun, a shield with an eagle, a bird, a rose, a butterfly, two stars, a sailing ship, a crucifix, an Indian girl, a heart, a spread eagle, a ballet dancer, a dragon, a sail boat, a girl's head, some flowers, a brace let, three hearts, a setting sun, a Pearl Harbor scene, three race horses, and the legends: "U.S.A. 1931" and "Manila...