Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rogue wind swallows a tall ship racing off Bermuda...
...refurbished in England 13 years ago, thew 117-ft. Marques had appeared in several movies and portrayed the Beagle in the television series The Voyage of Charles Darwin. It was one of 39 ships competing in , the 800-mile Bermuda-Nova Scotia leg of the biennial Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua, had a complement of 28, including...
...called the fatal force that capsized their ship "a rogue wind." "It meant to kill us," asserted John Ash, 24, of Newtown, Pa. "There was nothing we could do." The proud vessel brought to the bottom the silver cup it had captured by winning a previous leg of the tall ships race. But the Marques bequeathed a legacy to future seafarers: the race's organizers hope to raise $50,000 for a Marques Foundation that will train other young sailors to brave and conquer the realm that Lord Byron called "the image of Eternity...
...claimed from an early age that he was fated to lead the Sikhs in their struggle for autonomy. Gradually distancing himself from the more moderate Akali Dal, Bhindranwale began in 1981 to use holy places as sanctuaries and military training grounds for Sikh fundamentalists rallying around him. The tall, lean leader always wore a sword as well as a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver on a gun belt with silver bullets. He preached that Sikhs were a religious group apart from Hindus and Muslims, with a divine destiny to rule themselves and escape the corrupt influences of Hindu and Western values...
Johnson's own work, also done at the atelier, needs painstaking care. After he models a 12-in.-tall clay figure, assistants duplicate it as a life-size nude. Real clothing is fitted on it by a full-time seam stress, who stitches the material to plaster castings so the folds will fall just right. Afterward it is sprayed with a stiffening resin to hold its shape. The casting method Johnson uses is so fine that it duplicates wrinkles on the leather of an old briefcase. He hired Japanese and Italian as well as American chemists to develop...