Word: winches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, his art was not lost on the relatively inexperienced sailors of Kookaburra III. "They thrashed us with a better boat," said Rick Goodrich, a Queensland cowboy grinding his first winch. And with more than just the boat. Starting Helmsman Peter Gilmour, who jockeyed for Murray in the pre-race maneuvers, imagined on the last day that he had succeeded in cajoling Conner over the line prematurely. "Then I remembered something," he said. "It's Dennis...
...playing chopsticks), and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee fuses bebop and rap: "Go get the lady with the unusual haircut and add her to the stack. Go get Meyer and the boat and bring the boat around. Use the big anchor and the power takeoff winch to pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched...
...facilitate the search, the team first sliced the ground open with hunting knives and then cut away the soil an inch at a time. Now the men pass shovelfuls of dirt to Laotian soldiers waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil. "I don't have any idea what it is," says Navy Lieut. Commander Loren E. Decker Jr., a tall, muscular man standing at the bottom of the deep hole...
...reporters and perhaps to voters, the attacking Hart of TV ads was not the same personality as the frequently defensive and sometimes conciliatory figure he seemed in the New York debate. Mondale was more consistently on the attack, both in ads and as he presented himself for news stories, winch cost nothing. But David Garth, his New York media strategist, contended that commercials rarely have much impact in a presidential primary anyway, because they have only days to get a message across...
...Span cable network, and the one in New York on CBS. Apart from their direct impact on viewers, debates are excerpted on TV news and help set the agenda for the press. When Hart asked Mondale in an Iowa debate to cite one issue on winch he had differed with labor, Mondale ducked the question; for days afterward, journalists kept posing the same query, fostering the impression Hart had sought to make, that Mondale is overly beholden to his supporters. In Atlanta, Mondale turned to Hart and cracked, "When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that...