Word: scow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frustrating Task. More scow than ship, the 24-year-old Pueblo seemed singularly unsuited for her mission. Her wheezing boilers could deliver a maximum speed of only 13.1 knots. The ship's steering mechanism was worn out. Bucher's initial duty was to supervise the refitting of Pueblo from an Army freighter into a first-class, electronic spy ship. It was a frustrating task...
Lubitsch also deals in social comment, but the touch is so gentle that no one could be offended. A scene in a luxury hotel in Venice closes with a shot of a garbage scow on the canal, the boatman breaking into lusty song. A young Bolshevik scolds an indulgent heiress, but his overzealousness places the joke equally...
...boat across the starting line five lengths ahead. But Rival Helmsman Bob Bavier simply sailed Constellation through Sovereign's lee, within 15 minutes had a ten-length lead as Designer Olin Stephens' powerful hull knifed smoothly through the buffeting swells, while Sovereign pounded like a flat-bottomed scow. When Constellation swept across the finish line, Sovereign was 21 miles and more than 20 minutes behind. Aboard the British tender, Sovereign's designer, David Boyd, hid his face in his hands...
...William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks ago, his Skeeter hit a hidden "pressure heave...
...category of those who go through life collecting every available "experience." The more intellectual collect experiences, hold them up to the light, and dissect them meticulously; others simply absorb experiences indescriminately. Such people might find what they consider valuable experience in hitch-hiking to Peru, working on a garbage scow or sleeping with a Hottentot. Marijuana provides just one more piece of bric-a-brac for their emotional trophy case...