Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States this fall to see his daughter, Virginia, who is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, Tsouderos plans to sail within ten days...
...great ship's bridge, gold-braided, choleric Commodore Cyril Gordon Illingworth paced restlessly. "We'll sail at 3 p.m.," he had said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
Official union leaders at the meeting wanted the ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
...shame-free message Gugel has thus found in Cinderella, but churchgoers will be likely to find his surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...
Quarterback Jim Kenary, although his blocks and tackles were vicious all afternoon, watched his usually accurate passes sail over the heads of Crimson receivers. The Sophomore tossed several strikes, however, one of them for the second touchdown, and master-minded the team like a veteran...