Hints and tips:
...A rudder, a bedrock, a cornerstone, a north star: people used to find these things in their personal relationships. In their church, family, factory or town....
...Sales quotes a chilling blog post by OkCupid founder Christian Rudder titled “We Experiment On Human Beings!”...
...In November, William Rinner, Mr Delrahim’s chief of staff, said at a conference that the FTC’s case was going “forward like a ship without a rudder”....
...The following autumn — grateful for a successful harvest — Governor William Bradford sent four men to hunt wildfowl....
...(Kitchen had form as an inventor: his reversing rudder, which could bring small ships to an almost complete stop, was picked up by the navy....
...This leaves the Fed looking like the pilot of an airliner with a wonky rudder. Fed officials may have yanked on the controls, but the aircraft has moved in the opposite direction of what was planned....
...He can’t talk on the morning when I first call him because “a couple of French lads have turned up with a broken rudder, and they need the boat back for Wednesday. Can we speak this afternoon?”...
...Repeated problems with the rudder system led to the pilots disengaging the autopilot in stormy weather in an attempt to fix the situation....
...He has served as counsel and rudder to the current prime minister and chancellor....
...The speed of the forces involved was also remarkable: in May 1805, for example, Nelson chased Villeneuve to the West Indies and back, pausing only to replace a rudder on the Victory before defeating him,...
...The writer is outgoing chief executive of UK-listed bookmaker William Hill....
...Within days the boys were out in the bay in their own little dinghies, capsizing in the most benign conditions, learning about jibs and jibes, beams and rudders....
...The refusal by his entourage to allow Goodluck Jonathan, then deputy president to assume control, left the country rudder less for months, prey to rapacious deal makers and vulnerable to coup plots....
...Winchester has resuscitated brilliant oddballs before – notably in The Surgeon of Crowthorne, about convicted killer and amateur philologist William Chester Minor....
...The creak of rope on chock and the constant adjustment of sheets and mast-stays echoed by that of the rudder-bar became the background music of our days....
...William Wilberforce MP (Ioan Gruffudd) did it all himself, in the Houses of Parliament, with a golden glow of righteousness....
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