Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look out, Skipper, pull her to the side...
...skipper gonna chase me with...
This was a sport for navigator types-more akin to chess than racing-and in the next day's race, speed alone would count for nothing. Only the official observer on each boat would carry a watch; only he would be able to record just how close his skipper was keeping to his estimates. If all went well, if navigational skill was equal to predicted-log equations, every boat would churn past the finish line at Block Island at exactly 7 p.m. The time-measured margin of error (including the error at each control point) would determine the winner...
Sympathy in the Library. To his students, he was every inch the admiral. He might appear in class in riding breeches or at the opera in a cape, but he always seemed the skipper just temporarily out of uniform. In his book-lined study, he could be the genial host or sympathetic adviser. But in his students and shipmates alike, the quality he liked best was boldness. "And when you go out on the tide," he once advised a fellow yachtsman who was planning a cruise, "don't bother with the channel. Go out between the two little islands...
Discussing the theory behind the new comforts, the Carronade's skipper, Lieut. Commander Daniel O'Connell Doran, said: "An American boy is used to home and having his own room and all we have to draw on are American boys." Among the Carronade's 137 crewmen and seven officers, only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That...