Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hobby brought him a commission in the Navy in 1940. After four years in the Atlantic on minesweepers and destroyer escorts, White went to Washington to work for James Forrestal in smoothing the transition to a peace-time Navy. Discharged as a Commander in 1945, he remains a keen salt water sailor, piloting his fifty-foot German-built yawl "Blue Water" through the coves of Long Island Sound "as often as possible." As a weekend skipper, White has won several races, although he lost his mainsail the only time he entered the famed Bermuda regatta...
Hubert attended his three morning classes, but they had all been cancelled in honor of Yale's visit. He had to pass up lunch because the car wouldn't start, but a little salt in the radiator and half a coke in the battery water did the trick...
...afraid that the world's diplomats and TIME are completely misled as to the importance of Suez pilots and the difficulty of their task. I dare say that Suez pilotage is one of the easiest in the world. Any master mariner worthy of his salt, if properly briefed by a simple memorandum on the procedure and signaling, should be able to take his ship through. I have steered ships through Suez, and compared to, say, Hell Gate, Suez is a picnic...
...defensive lapse on two missed tackles let Dartmouth's outside right Jim Kennedy get to a lose ball. Kennedy fired a perfect shot to the left hand corner which completely beat goalie Finkelstein for the winning margin. Inside right Bob Googins rubbed salt in the wound with a final goal 15 seconds before the game ended...
Best Defense. In Salt Lake City, police confiscated the slingshot of a street sweeper after passers-by reported he was taking potshots at pigeons...