Word: spindrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taking time out from his racing cars, Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham, flying the burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club on his trim sloop Spindrift, won the National Atlantic Class sailing championship at the Sea Cliff (L.I.) Yacht Club. Second: Cunningham's clubmate Hoyt Perry. Third: Novelist John (The Watt) Hersey...
...York-bound voyage, nothing suggested that she faced anything more than a routine crossing of the wintry Atlantic. Then, west and north of the Bay of Biscay, the ship was enveloped by an awesome storm. A black sky pressed down. The horizon vanished in flying spindrift. As solid seas began thundering over the vessel's bow, lier radio picked up a warning: worse was to come-the fiercest December gales in 22 years were howling along the European coast...
...Maine seacoast he knows best, are Wyeth's chief work. The worst of them look unnecessarily labored, but the best make him a candidate for the mantle of the great Pennsylvania realist Thomas Eakins. That dour master specialized in dramatizing the obvious, as Wyeth does in his crystalline Spindrift. The earthier Eakins would never have attempted Soaring...