Word: skippering
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...Johnson expressed his delight in escaping for the nonce from "battles and soldiers and the bitterness of war," praised the Tucson first-grade teacher for having "taken the great outdoors as her classroom and the great desert as her desk." At an Agriculture Department ceremony honoring cost-cutting employees, Skipper Johnson likened the Administration's campaign against waste to "bailing a boat - you have to keep at it; there is no time to rest." Mockingly, he scolded the Agriculture men for not equaling the White House's 100% participation in a savings-bond drive: "Maybe...
...races were sailed on a co-skipper basis with members alternating as skippers and crews. Underwood was the high-point skipper with first places in each of his three races. Lankton and Emmett each placed first in one race...
...airmen from the water off Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...
There are some disadvantages to the huge ships. In a thick fog, the skipper on the bridge may wonder where his bow is and what it is doing. Few harbors can handle the ships, although this matters little for tankers, since they can stand offshore while loading and unloading by pipeline. The Suez Canal is too small for the supertankers, and the shallow North Sea is not safe for ships drawing more than 56 feet, which is to say those larger than 200,000 tons. Insurance companies are fretful about "concentration of risk...
...whom should be denied possession of such information for their own good, squash is also a game played on an enclosed court with rackets and a rocklike India-rubber ball. Enthusiasts talk about the sport's "therapeutic values," particularly as a cure for hangover; one U.S. Navy skipper thinks so much of it as a conditioner that he has had a court in stalled on his submarine tender. The truth is that squash is onomatopoetic: anybody who lets himself get locked into a 32-ft. by 18½-ft. court with another club-waving fanatic ought to expect that...