Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheet, a line used to tighten or slacken the sails...
...coming into the - weather mark on a starboard tack and bearing off to port. The foredeck chief and crew will hoist the spinnaker pole. The bow man jumps into the forward hatch and hooks in the guy, sheet and halyard to the spinnaker. As we round the mark, the foredeck crew hoists the spinnaker and lets down the jib. The navigator holds the jib on an auxiliary sheet as the port tailer releases the jib sheet. The port tailer is then free to take in the spinnaker sheet while the other tailer takes in the after guy. Then...
Weinberger of Ottawa once shielded himself with a sheet of nylon and let a Canadian soldier jab at him with a bayonet. Anyone would have thought him mad. But the bayonet scarcely dented the fabric...
...proposed some therapy for Russian prices. In a recent article, he called for the creation of a "three-tier" structure under which the state would fix prices for raw materials and fuel, set upper and lower limits for certain other standardized products (such as component parts and sheet metal), but allow market forces to set consumer prices...
...term Mayor John Collins announced that he would not seek reelection. That left the field wide open. It also left Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, Boston school committee member and long a fierce enemy of enforced school integration, with at least a slight popular lead on the early form sheet. A strong campaigner who topped the ticket in the last two citywide elections, Mrs. Hicks wows the voters with her theme song-Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Louise-and her parochial slogan: "Boston for Bostonians." In a city of strong ethnic divisions and relatively low levels of income...