Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Roosevelt returned to Washington on the Presidential yacht Potomac from a weekend on Chesapeake Bay, two news dispatches told the U.S. how nearly two other U.S. ships came to involvement...
...words was dead, having given up the job of leading almost 23 years ago. For the speaker was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The man who heard the Kaiser's words was a U.S. journalist, William Bayard Hale of the New York Times. They were aboard the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, at anchor in the fjord of Bergen, Norway, one July evening in 1908, and the Kaiser stalked the deck in the gold braid of an Admiral of the German High Seas Fleet. He spoke English, in which he was fluent, and sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer...
...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...
...congenial group which faced the white-capped waters on the shores of the Great Tepee. Roger Willcox '41, Commodore of the Yacht Club, had decided that the engagement was informal enough to warrant a crew from Radcliffe, which "was practically part of Harvard anyway." Willcox's brother was in the Dartmouth boat, and Charlie Miller '41, the CRIMSON's exhepcat, had ensconced himself in the hold of the Tech dinghy. Only Brown seemed to have come directly for racing. At the end of three races, approximately when the sun went down, M. I. T. had ten points to its credit...
...broadcasters-was about to come unstuck. But on Sunday morning Fred Weber got busy on the phone. Sitting in his hotel room, devouring one steak sandwich after another, he began calling Pittsburgh, Texas, Utah, Minnesota. He found one man playing golf, reached another fishing, called another on a yacht, but failed to locate Fort Worth's Captain Elliott Roosevelt. Mail, wire and phone votes rolled in. By late Sunday the balance shifted, and 86 had agreed to ratify (one more than the required majority). Mutual stockholders met again, and Yankee's Shepard withdrew his opposition to make...