Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following Harvard's victory in the Nationals last weekend in Cincinnati, local columnist Lonnie Wheeler was a bit sarcastic when he asked readers of the Sunday morning paper. "Why weren't these kids yachting oft Newport, anyway, or summering in Nantucket." The answer, of course, is that the Harvard crew had better things to do, namely show 12,400 Cincinnati folk who didn't know better why the Eastern "preppies" from Harvard can row a crew shell through the water faster than anyone else in the nation. Wheeler wasn't the only one surprised. Previously undefeated Western powerhouse Washington, Brown...
...Miller Nantucket, Mass...
...December, say, to Florida's moral equivalent of high summer. Then they fly back into the wan, smudged month that they left, and they are tan. In deep winter, they are exotics walking among all those gray faces at lunchtime like Queequeg on-the streets of Nantucket...
...Chief Justice, his white leonine mane flowing behind him, took the center chair on the bench and announced the court's opening case (Colorado vs. New Mexico, a water-rights dispute). To the Chief Justice's right was the senior Justice, William Brennan, 76, back from his Nantucket summer home, his lively eyes on full alert behind his spectacles. The court's junior member, Sandra Day O'Connor, fresh from an African safari vacation, looked stern as a schoolmarm as the first hopeful lawyer began to argue his case. The 1982-83 term...
...passengers out, a 53-car freight train tore through the crossing, smashing the bus in two. Forty-foot waves and winds of up to 90 m.p.h. along the Atlantic Coast raised fears of another oil-rig disaster. Operators of the Zapata Saratoga rig, anchored 110 miles off Nantucket Island, asked the Coast Guard to evacuate 50 of its workers; luckily, the storm abated and the rescue operation was called...