Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shipmates to advise them on shopping. "Some of the guys have an easier time talking to females than males about family problems," said Airman Heather Weers. Feeling competition, the men worked harder. And foul language was toned down. "I think we've become a little more civilized," said the skipper, Captain Alan Mark Gemmill...
...talking about--and judging by the Nielsen ratings, you don't--it's the sacred sailing event that only comes every three years. The one that France spent over 30 million dollars just to enter (half of which came from public funds), and the one that caused Japan's skipper to weep...
Brash, cocky, arrogant, confident, they're all Dennis Connor. And before you brandish me, he'd probably agree. But you know what? He's a winner, and a fine skipper. He has one of the finest skippers on board already, but he has on qualms about grabbing the wheel and taking hold of his own ship, Stars and Stripes...
...fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...
...show would have great philosophical implications," he says. "On a much larger scale this happens all the time. Eventually, the Israelis are going to have to learn to live with the Arabs. We have one world, and Gilligan's Island was my way of saying that." Gilligan and the Skipper as Arafat and Rabin? In the world of Sherwood Schwartz, it makes perfect sense...