Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy was unfortunate if only because it tended to obscure the fact that Gretel II was the most formidable foreign challenger since the Cup switched from giant J-class boats to 12-meter sloops in 1958. When Intrepid scored her easy victory over Valiant in the U.S. trials a month ago, it was generally conceded that she had all but clinched the Cup. In 20 previous attempts, few challengers had even come close to wresting the trophy from America, and the preliminaries off Newport gave no indication that this year's races would break any precedents. The Aussies, scuttled...
When Intrepid scored her startling victory over Valiant in last month's America's Cup trials, the least surprised man in Newport was Britton Chance Jr., the young naval architect who had taken the old 1967 Cup winner and redesigned her into the 1970 Cup defender. To Chance's mind, the outcome was decided last winter in a test tank in Hoboken, N.J. There, like some bathtub admiral, he spent four months testing 75 different model hulls until "I felt we had a winning design for Intrepid.'" Chance was sure of it when...
...confidence is what it takes to defeat the Australian challenger Gretel II when the America's Cup begins this week, Brit Chance obviously has enough to spare. Indeed, some old salts find him downright arrogant. Defeating Valiant was one thing, they say, but criticizing the boat's designer. Olin Stephens, 62, the man who practically invented the 12-meter sloop, is akin to lèse-majesté. But Chance isn't listening; he is too busy explaining why Stephens, after designing three of the last four Cup winners, was all but swamped by the new Intrepid...
...London and on the Continent, the linguistic lag is sorely evident: phrases already discarded Stateside are just coming into common usage across the pond. Some Londoners estimate that it takes two years for a lively American coinage to make it as far as Chelsea. Esperantists, however, are making a valiant effort to cope more quickly. At their world convention in Vienna last week, some of the younger hotheads were talking about gruva young ladies with whom they hoped to scenumi (make the scene) in the evening...
...felt they could depend on the Kronstadt sailors to uphold the gains of the Bolshevik victory. Inveterate enemies of Tsarist autocracy, the sailors had risen decisively against both Nicholas and the mildly reformist Provisional Government. They had propelled the Communists to victory at the Winter Palace, and the valiant support which they rendered the fledgling regime during the stormy days after the October insurrection had prompted Minister of War Leon Trotsky to hail them as "the pride and glory of the revolution...