Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next few contests, Navy drew even. At number two, Harvard's Todd Lundy went down in a hard-fought three sets. After Scott Walker, who played strongly all week, had disposed of his sailor foe in another battle that went the distance, a strong Navy racquetman dispatched Kevin Shaw in two sets...
...Wrong borrows heavily from many sources, among them The Scarlet Letter, The Last Summer, the Bible, American Graffitti, Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones, and Osborne's life. It is about San Francisco and sailing in the summer, because Osborne grew up in San Francisco and is "an accomplished sailor...
...NASA is scheduled to decide next August which craft, if either, will make the mission. Until it decides, there will be fierce but friendly competition at J.P.L., where employees last week identified their allegiance by wearing buttons reading either TRUCKING WITH ION DRIVE or I'M A SOLAR SAILOR...
Forecasting the weather has long occupied man's attention. Early farmers and sailors, whose livelihoods-and sometimes lives-depended upon the weather, learned by experience how to read the signs that frequently presaged change. Sailors realized from early days the general wisdom of the poem "Sky red in the morning/ Is a sailor's sure warning/ Sky red at night/ Is the sailor's delight." Farmers observed that dandelions and other flowers closed when a storm was approaching and had a simple way of telling the temperature from the rate at which crickets chirp: count the number...
...something of a misstatement, however. These comic Prosperos can conjure up whole casts with a mere wink of the eye or shrug of the shoulder. His face is a rubbery Halloween mask that can be anyone from Captain Hook in Peter Pan -another product of their collaborations-to a sailor in On the Town. She is the perfect counterpoise, an off-the-rack Garbo who would have turned even Camille into a wild giggle. Rarely has so much wit and fun been packed into two hours. To cop a line from another songwriter. Cole Porter, what a swellegant, elegant party...