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Fore or forward: at or toward the front of a ship or further ahead of a location (opposite of "aft") [1] Preposition form is "before", e.g. "the mainmast is before the mizzenmast". Inboard: attached inside the ship. [15] Keel: the bottom structure of a ship's hull. [16] Leeward: side or direction away from the wind (opposite of "windward"). [17]
The ship lies broadside to the current, with the main topsail backed and the fore and mizzen topsail full: essentially a hove-to position. Selective backing and filling of these sails moves the ship ahead or astern, so allowing it to be kept in the best part of the channel.
"Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" [a] is a song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and first published in 1955. [4] Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), [5] singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son. [4]
After Oct. 7, Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza returned the Palestinian cause to the global agenda. But a year later, the story is the vulnerability of Iran.
In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock — the length of five U.S. football fields — into a beach in northern Gaza.
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Biden called the Fourth a “sacred day” with a special only-in-America meaning for all of us.
Continuing along a road more often traveled is advantageous if anticipating what lies ahead is important. Taking another road just to circumvent the road more often traveled, the road that policy is built on, is not always smooth and is more likely to result in the need to navigate more unexpected occurrences.