Word: stowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STOW L. WITWER...
...Great Britain II was a week's sail from Capetown when her fresh-water tanks sprang a leak and ran dry. Forced to live on a trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into...
Peckinpah seems perfectly aware of all this, but instead of trying to do some thing about it, he puts her down - lit erally. She and McQueen stow away in a garbage truck and come spilling out in a gush of trash onto the town dump. Peckinpah's chuckling is almost audible...
...rover; at hand will be an extension pole with a device similar to a Dixie cup holder at its far end. After he scoops up a rock or dust with the topmost cup in the holder, Schmitt will remove the cup and its contents, seal the little container and stow it away...
...however, no one contemplated a third threat: that terrorists would stow their weapons aboard for action on the ground. Just as new fences appeared at U.S. airports following a rash of bombs on TWA planes, airlines will try to close this latest security gap with a more extensive baggage search. The question is to what extent passengers will put up with such checks...