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Word: sloops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kirschkes deliberately sought wider horizons for their 24-year marriage. With their son and daughter grown, they moved four years ago into a modern apartment in Naples, near the Long Beach Yacht Club, where for a time they kept a 33-ft. sloop. Both found the club a good place to meet new friends, and some of them may have wound up berthing at Rivo Alto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Dolce Vita, Rivo Alto Style | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...Sloop John B--Beach Boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year's Top Picks | 1/5/1967 | See Source »

...Chichester once said about his penchant for solo performances. "Any attempt to diverge from this lot makes me half a person." Whether he was roaming the English countryside as a boy, piloting a seaplane from Australia to Japan as a young man, or crossing the Atlantic in a small sloop in middle age. Chichester always faced danger alone. Though he has never escaped fear ("A spot of panic is good for you, keeps you alive"), Chichester has loved the rewards of mastering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: With the Moan of the Wind And a Barrel of Beer | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Harvard's strongest sailing team in recent years tied for third in the New England Sloop Championships last weekend at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Dartmouth led the seven finalists with 44 points, followed by Tufts, 41, and Harvard and M.I.T. each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailing Squad Finishes Third In Sloop Meet | 11/2/1966 | See Source »

...young King of Greece was regaling his friends with his version of an encounter at sea. It seems the sky was clear and the wind low enough so that the officer on the deck of the U.S. carrier Saratoga was able to hail the youthful skipper of the sloop Proteus without a megaphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: A Year of Clear Sailing | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

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