Word: windwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throws bombs constantly; he is beset east and west by the Dominican Republic and Cuba, which keep trying to strike at each other through Haiti. But he has one powerful friend, the U.S., which sent him 50 marines to train his army and has had destroyers around the Windward Passage to discourage seaborne invasion. Last week one of Duvalier's tactical companies crept up on the 30-man invasion force that slipped in from Cuba a fortnight ago (TIME. Aug. 17). In a flurry of gunfire, the troops killed most of the invaders, captured four, sent the rest fleeing...
...Hood expected, her wide beam and deep centerboard gives Robin solid stability while beating to windward, and her shallow underbody makes her fast off the wind. So effective is Hood's centerboard that there was talk around the fleet last week that other racers may soon be copying his design as well as buying his sails. That would still leave Robin with one indispensable feature: Ted Hood himself at the tiller...
...building was a heap of ruins. The Massachusetts Gazette of Feb. 2 reported that Stoughton and Massachusetts Halls were in great danger as the wind drove cinders on the roofs of both buildings. Also the "new and beautiful" Hollis Hall dedicated just days earlier, narrowly escaped although it was windward. The Gazette called the blaze "the most ruinous the College ever met since its foundation...
...jitters and in a vacation mood, the total was not enough. The Caribe Hilton rented out its solarium, conference room and doctor's office. No-vacancy signs were up in the Virgin Islands, now linked to Puerto Rico by a 40-passenger hydrofoil speedboat. Barbados, easternmost of the Windward chain, bustled; Trinidad impatiently awaited the completion of a $9,500,000 Hilton hotel...
...competitors hold." Lawyer Lorenzen is a little more specific. "It's quite a trick to get a boat with tremendous stability and not too much underbody," he says. "Bill draws his lines very tight. His lines at the forward section are very fine. This helps particularly in going windward...