Word: tiller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What worried the Republicans was the timing, if it happened that way. If the White House gauged the public mood aright, a dramatic, firm-hand-on-the-tiller mobilization call on election eve might seriously damage G.O.P. election chances...
...signal gun for the first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat...