Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Navy had a fourth ship by the name Enterprise, a 194-ton schooner...
...family colorfully illustrates both ends of the tattoo age spectrum. At 77, my Uncle Harvey sports several, including, on his left forearm, a schooner that arrived there during World War II. Harvey is sheepish about his tattoos, describing them as "stupid mistakes." On the other hand, my 20-year-old stepcousin Aaron will proudly roll up his T-shirt sleeve to show his right arm, covered from shoulder to elbow with his initials surrounded by a design that resembles Victorian wallpaper. An intricately tattooed Yoda from Star Wars sagely sits on his left calf. Aaron describes his body...
...bike trails and the huge Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge. Out-of-towners come to tour the historic homes and treasure hunt at craft and antique shows. Some folks bring cameras and sketchpads to chronicle the Sultana Shipbuilding Project, a community endeavor to create a two-masted 18th century schooner for educational projects. Others are enticed by the Blue Heron Cafe, an American seafood restaurant known for its to-die-for oyster fritters...
...craw sticks the story of the sinking of the four-masted schooner Fantome, which went down in the Caribbean after a losing battle of wits with Hurricane Mitch. Captain and crew were certain they had outsmarted the hurricane by hanging back, but Mitch decided to stall, and down went the Fantome in 180-m.p.h. winds and 50-ft. waves--31 people lost...
...single midsummer's day in 1947, when some fishermen smell a new iceberg, "musty yet at the same time pure, like the air in a vault that has gone undisturbed for centuries." Stranded just offshore an Irish Catholic settlement in Newfoundland, the fishermen imagine the berg as a schooner, a basilica, an image of the Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea. As the rest or the town awakens, the drunken lighthouse keeper believe it to be a ship come to rescue him from his delusional exile. A teenage girl believes it as an omen of a new beau...