Word: skippering
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...band whomped up a rousing Sousa march on a closely guarded pier at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard dock. Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions-from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles-had been stored. Then Skipper Osborn bellowed a time-honored order: "Cast off all lines!" Soon the sub pointed her bulbous nose down the Cooper River and headed for sea to inaugurate a new era in the arcane cold-war art of keeping the peace...
...Depression and unaware, except through reading and conversations, of the traumatic effect it had on the U.S. His Catholic father insisted on a secular education for him, and Jack went to Choate, Harvard and the London School of Economics. Extensive travel in Europe, a wartime hitch as skipper of a Navy FT boat (his brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, died in an air explosion over the English Coast), a brief turn as a Hearst correspondent gave him a kaleidoscopic political, international and economic background. By the time he decided to enter public life, Kennedy was a cool...
Although Crimson skipper Carter Ford took third place honors in division A, his teammate Mike Lehman found rough going in the second division. Twice fouls forced Lehman to withdraw and sacrifice much-needed points...
...early races (which pitted two four-skipper teams against each other), the Crimson skippers outdistanced the Elis, who in turn put down the Engineers. In order to win the series the Crimson then had to outskipper the Tech boats...
...tiny topsail schooner Pickle leaked and bucked her way past Spanish Finisterre, through Biscay's Bay, past French Finistere, and English Land's End, to Falmouth. The "telegraph" (semaphore) to London was unfinished. So Pickle's skipper, Lieut. John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall. It was 16 days after the fleet's guns fell silent that Lapenotiere rode through Admiralty Arch, strode into the secretary's office and announced baldly: "Sir, we have gained a great victory, but we have lost Lord Nelson...