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Word: skipperly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more. Running before the wind, under an 800-sq.-ft. spinnaker, a 5.5-meter can skim along at 8 knots. But a sailor is well advised to take along a reliable Mae West and a strong Australian crawl. "You've got to be rugged," says one skipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: Victory by Design | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...nightmare. One early race had to be postponed for lack of wind, but by the end of the seven-race series, swells were running 10 ft. high, and a 30-m.p.h. easterly buffeted the 34-boat fleet. "Are you sure we're in the right place?" asked one skipper. "This looks like the North Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: Victory by Design | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., 29, seagoing son of famed U.S. Yachtsman Corny Shields: the International One-Design Class world sailing championship, on Long Island Sound. Skipper of the 12-meter Columbia in last year's America's Cup trials, Shields won the world title by scoring back-to-back victories at the start of the six-race series, building up such a lead that he could finish sixth in the last two races and still win handily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scoreboard: Who Won Sep. 27, 1963 | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...attacking the Kennedy "myth," Lasky writes that J.F.K.'s "military experience included having the PT boat of which he was the skipper rammed and sunk by a much slower Japanese destroyer." A Pulitzer Prize author? "Kennedy had considerable help." Even Kennedy's use of naval power to pressure Khrushchev to withdraw his missiles from Cuba was, to Lasky, merely a ploy for domestic political advantage, since "among other things, Kennedy was able to accomplish the political destruction of his former rival, Richard M. Nixon, in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: In the Trash Pile | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

Robertson plays Kennedy: a tough skipper with a soft shoulder; a good head ("he wrote a book, or sumpin'" a crewman remarks) but with a capacity for human error (he rams his boat into the dock, then gets it cut in half by a Japanese destroyer). Above all "the skinny, boyish lieutenant from Boston" is a fount of homely wisdom. One can sense the echo, if only dimly, of the famous Kennedy rhetoric: "They'll do a good job for us" he says of his crew, "if we do one for them...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Robertson Is Thud In 'PT 109' | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

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