Word: sloop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telescope mount. The clamps will be used to anchor lines running to the trapezoid-shaped covering. As the lines are tightened, the shade will be pulled into its proper position like the spinnaker on a sailboat (the analogy especially pleases Conrad, who recently acquired a 34-ft. sloop). If this fails, the crew will try again after they have boarded Skylab. One possibility: two of the astronauts will crawl out of a hatch in the space laboratory's airlock module and try to position another Mylar covering over the damaged section with a long extension...
...Sloop Shrew...
...weekends ago, Radcliffe sponsored and won the Sloop Shrew on the Charles over a field of seven teams. Stroud and Angell won a phenomenal 12 of 14 B division races and finished second in the other two to pace the Radcliffe victory...
...Bich is best known for his fiasco in the 1970 America's Cup Race; his sloop France, which he captained, got lost in the fog off Newport. He speaks in aquatic terms even when describing his company: "We just try to stick close to reality, like a surfer to his board. We don't lean forward or backward too far or too fast. We ride the wave at the right moment." Bic is now skimming along the crest of a 72% sales increase over the past five years. The baron hopes that with the disposable Bic lighter another...
Harvard has not won a New England Sloop Championship in ten years...