Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottles of vintage liquors, some 200,000 cigarettes, a supply of fine cigars and other necessities for gracious living on a long voyage. Then, on July 18, 1951, loaded with its complement of happy internationalists, each equipped with passport and currency bearing the signature of President Robert, it set sail, ostensibly to found a new nation in Africa...
...ships may be freighted with all the things (jewelry, clothing and kitchenware) that the soul of a Pharaoh might need. There may be effigies of dancing girls to entertain the soul of Pharaoh. There may be a group of his friends for company. There may be a crew to sail the ship in procession behind...
...childhood that seems as wacky and improbable as an incident in Alice in Wonderland, but Novelist David Garnett wins hands down with his memories of childhood and youth (the first volume of his autobiography). When he was five, Joseph Conrad took him into the garden and taught him to sail a boat ("the sail was a . . . sheet tied . . . to a clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied by Henry James riding a bicycle...
...sens-common sense. But two Frenchmen have put out books about experiences that belie the national characteristic. One decided to penetrate the Amazonian jungle and make friends with cannibals. The other proposed crossing the Atlantic alone in a 15-ft. dinghy fitted with a single tiny sail. Both were displaying uncommon sense, which is the kind that turns the key on adventure and opens doors to discovery...
...Nathanson, who, with Charles Hoppin, won the Morss trophy for the national championship for the past two years, will sail with the A division, with sophomore A. C. Langworthy as crew. Tim Brown and Charles Flather will compete for the Crimson in the B event...