Word: sloop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raiding a cart of explosives killed two Royal Irish Constabulary guards, thereby causing the first British deaths since the Easter Rising. Gunmen began ambushing the constables from behind walls and ditches. In November 1919, a daring raid by the I.R.A. Cork Brigade cleaned out the arms from a British sloop in Bantry Bay. The Irish public tacitly supported the cause with boycotts of British goods...
...Coast Guard Academy hosted the New England Sloop Championship in New London on Saturday and Sunday. Harvards entry was skippered by co-captain John Bowers and crewed by Rud Istvan. George Putnam, and Dave Brownlee...
Under the leadership of co-captains John Bowers and Rud Istvan and All-New England Charlie Koch, the team won the Big Three Championship, the Wood Trophy, the Land Trophy, and has qualified for the finals of the New England Sloop Championship...
...wielding a knife." His first marriage collapsed when he was 39. Then Oates discovered he had hepatitis. "I had to stop drinking completely, and that saved me, because I began to turn to other things." The other things included writing poetry, playing the guitar, and sailing a 29-ft. sloop, spending weeks alone on the water...
When Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath takes his hand off the tiller of the ship of state, he grabs the tiller of his 41-ft. sloop Morning Cloud. In fact, critics feel, he shows more devotion to Morning Cloud than to Britain. Opposition Leader Harold Wilson has called Heath a "part-time" Prime Minister, and the daily Sun has accused "Skipper Ted" of "sitting bronzed and beaming at the helm while the economy of the U.K. sinks slowly." The squalls of outrage really blew up when Heath, intent on winning a place in the ocean-going Admiral...