Word: steersman
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...recorded selection of Adenauer speeches and a baroque desk clock, which promptly rang the hour, leading Cabinet jesters to wonder for whom it tolled. But final blood went to Erhard supporters in the interministerial glee club which serenaded Adenauer's departure with a chorus from The Flying Dutchman: "Steersman, leave the watch!" His hackles raised by a critic's description of him as "the thinking man's Mickey Spillane," British Mystery Writer Ian Fleming, 53, sniffed to a New York Herald Tribune reporter: "I can't remember any piece of knowledge that Spillane has given...
...Named after the second brightest star. In Greek mythology, Canopus was the steersman of famed Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of even more famed Helen of Troy...
...have a footnote explaining the derivation of cybernetics "from χνβερνńτης, Greek for 'steersman.' " I believe the spelling in Greek is κνβερνńτης, the first letter being a Kappa...
...From Greek for "steersman...
High & Soon. As Casey watched, the French sled rumbled into Shady, its steel blades skitting and chattering around the curve. It came so close to cracking up that Casey made a mental resolution to talk to French steersman Louis Saint Calbre. Two weeks before, the Belgian team's sled had catapulted over Shady's 22-ft. wall of ice in a practice run, killing the driver and leading to Belgium's withdrawal. The Frenchman was driving Shady the same way. Said Casey to himself: "I got to go up and tell him how to take...