Word: skipperly
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...Elizabete (2,039 tons) put an eager working party and four towlines aboard the Farmer, ran up the British Merchant Navy ensign. When the Ranger came up, the Elizabete's skipper signaled: "Hands off-this prize is mine...
Last week, while waiting for Bowles to make port and make up his mind, Senator McMahon himself passed the lofty hint that it would be a shame for Chester Bowles to waste his abilities outside of Washington. The hint would be passed to Skipper Bowles not long after his boat docked...
...time all the intricate mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president of the Fuller Brush Co. He had won the slowest Bermuda race since the first race 40 years...
...Replaced Captain Clifford with a seagoing sailor, Captain James H. Foskett, who had become his good friend as skipper of the Augusta when she carried Harry Truman to & from Potsdam...
...opening campaign speech, young Jack Kennedy recalled a promise he had made when he was a PT-boat skipper in the Solomons. Said he: "When ships were sinking and young Americans were dying ... I firmly resolved to serve my country in peace as honestly as I tried to serve it in war." His method of serving was to try for Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts' Eleventh District...