Word: windwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live by soufflés alone," says Executive Vice President Robert T. Furman Jr. But Previews has made its reputation peddling white elephants and exotic properties. For $300,000 Tysen will sell a half share in an Irish distillery, for $182,000 the title to the Windward Island of Mustique, which Previews claims includes the right to appoint one's own parliament...
Beating to windward in a black night of rain squalls rolling up from the southeast, the vanguard of the 21st biennial Newport-to-Bermuda yacht race boiled past the finish line off St. David's Head in a swirl of windy confusion. Busy skippers forgot to flash their sail numbers in code to the race committee, and their boats slid by in the gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session...
Shallow-draft hulls are at their best in a following wind, and the wind stayed aft for three days. Finisterre ran downhill and showed her stern to many a deep-keeled craft that might have passed her had they been slugging it out to windward. Four days out, Finisterre got another break when the big boats up ahead ran into a calm. While they slatted helplessly, the smaller boats like Finisterre closed the gap the big fellows had opened up. On the last day, when storms made up in the southeast, Finisterre held her own in dusty going and drove...
...Beating to windward in light air, American Skipper Warner Willcox eased his sleek, 33-ft. International Class sloop into a commanding lead, finished well ahead in the last of seven races to lead his team to victory over the Bermudians for the 51-year-old Amorita Cup, grand prize of Bermuda Race Week...
...Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson promptly set about converting Walter's anchor to windward into a permanent mooring. Gathering up half his city government, Poulson trailed the Dodger president to the Dodgers' spring training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. A loud, impulsive man who manages to give the impression of enjoying himself hugely without quite understanding what is going on, Norris Poulson began to wave his arms wildly and spout promises the moment he met O'Malley. With all the sentimentality of a process server, Walter stopped the harangue by handing the mayor a paper. Somehow, Walter...