Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...similar leanings are not taken for granted: robust, greying Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu (rhymes with "marrow jaw glue"), 52, who in his time has held Turkey's portfolios of Finance, Justice, Interior and Education, who has helped President Inönüü plot and steer Turkey's present course. Hearty, bull-voiced Saracoglu sports a Hitler-style mustache and has often been suspected of Axis sympathies...
Except for some wartime restrictions, U.S. yachtsmen will steer their usual course this summer-not only for their own pleasure but for the convenience of the Coast Guard in case a mosquito fleet is needed during an emergency.* Some restrictions...
...Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
Without advising college students on whether or not they should keep studying by means of "the plums of pseudo-deferment held up by the Army and Navy," the genial chief of the draft said that it was the responsibility of his organization to "steer a course between those whose removal would jeopardize a genuine war effort, and those who are trying to evade their duties as citizens...
Skipper Robinson gave orders to steer by her engines. But she was down by the bow, shipping water fast. Her choked pumps wouldn't drain her. Lining up a bucket brigade, her crew bailed her out like a rowboat, all night and all the next day and night, till she dragged on her belly into the port of Tjilatjap, Java...