Word: knots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harriers' toughest task will be to break up a knot of five Yale runners whose previous times rate them faster than anyone except Benjamin and Fitzgerald. "We're just going to have to put out more," says Assistant Coach Ed Stowell...
...trim Yankee sloop, slashing relentlessly through 22-knot winds which sometimes raised waves as high as six feet, handed Sceptre her third straight setback...
Upwind Fight. Shields tried for nothing fancy at the start of their third race, trailed Vim across the line by a boat length. But Shields was to windward, where he could get free air, and that was all he needed. Beating upwind against a 20-knot southwester on the twice-around, windward-leeward course of 24 miles, Columbia was out ahead rounding the first mark, plowed on through the running...
Going into this week's final action, the heavy favorites to be picked by the selection committee to defend the America's Cup against Sceptre were Columbia and wily Corny Shields, who knew how to squeeze every knot of speed...
...fight Lebanon's rebels, nor to intervene in Iraq, but to secure the Lebanese government and its key centers in and around Beirut, e.g., Beirut International Airport. As Lebanon would be primarily a Navy show, at least at the outset, the J.C.S. executive agent was Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. At 6:23 p.m. the J.C.S. signaled Vice Admiral James Lemuel ("Lord Jim") Holloway Jr., commander of a dormant but newly activated interservice "Specified Command," to begin the deployment. Signaled Admiral Burke to the Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Division, due to land on the Beirut...