Word: spile
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...they git there. The young lovers fall out -but not out of the pitcher, unfortunately. Grandpa gits so riled he won't even conduct the family bane no more. The argyments continue up to ee-lection night, when Benjamin Harrison beats out Grover (hope that don't spile the suspense none). In the end, the couple gits reunited o'course, Grandpa picks up his baton, and it's choke-up time again, bringin' tears to the eyes and a lump to the studio. That family band is somethin', but that grandpa...
...interclub championship on Long Island Sound. In the summer she sails in overalls. In the winter she races regularly with the "frostbite" fleet, in 11-ft. dinghies. Last winter, during a gale that only two other dinghy skippers would risk their boats in, she hit a mooring spile, had to be rescued. This made her a member of the "Loons"-frostbite skippers who have survived tipping over in the Sound in midwinter. Last week she became a member of a more dignified organization-the Women's National Yacht Racing Association, formed by the skippers who were at Cohasset...
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