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Word: yachting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aimlessly drifting from the home of one royal relative to that of another or sporting with the fast-living "Alfa Romeo set" in Italy. Once, as a lark, he slipped back into republican Greece wearing a thick black beard and posing as a deckhand on a friend's yacht. By the time he married Frederika, at the age of 36 (she was 20), restless, roaming Paul was more than ready to settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The King's Wife | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Harvard Yacht Club, led by the skippering of Jim Nathanson, captured both the Danmark and the Oberg Trophies in three days of sailing over the weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Overcome MIT As Nathanson Wins 7 | 10/13/1953 | See Source »

...switched from precept to fiat. He gave civil servants three months to master the new script-or find new jobs. He had not been to Istanbul since 1919; now he returned in style and with a purpose. He sailed into the Golden Horn on the Sultan's yacht, triumphantly marched past cheering crowds. He summoned Istanbul's elite to the Sultan's palace to a ball, and stood before them in full evening dress on a raised platform, chalk in hand, before a blackboard. For two hours he explained the new language, then the music blared, everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: The land a dictator turned into a democracy | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Yacht Club in the finals, Gene Walet had scored the most points in a four-series total of 27 races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hooky on the Sound | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie Ill's boat (i.e., protected his edge in points by duplicating Ill's maneuvers, tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race to my dad for his [52nd] birthday present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hooky on the Sound | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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