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  • n  an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated

  • From the wheelhouse of the Betsy Ann peered Capt.
  • To locate radar and radio sources, Pueblo employed the twin antennas mounted forward of the wheelhouse.
  • A New York judge compared the spill to Hiroshima; the captain of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, who was not in the wheelhouse at the time of the accident, was tried on felony .
News & Articles

  • Hip-Hop Nerds, the Beastie Boys/Beatles Mash-Up Is Something You Absolutely Need to Hear
    DJ BC is yet another one of those guys out there who's becoming famous for his abilities in smashing together two relatively disparate songs and coming up with something wonderful — not unlike Danger Mouse (the man behind the Jay-Z/Beatles mashup, The Grey Album , Gnarls Barkley and Broken Bells), actually. BC, however, has been sticking to his wheelhouse in putting together his second mixtape ...
    June 11, 2013 - Tucson Weekly
  • Brad Paisley at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre tonight (6/7/2013)
    Brad Paisley So, you've probably heard of the six-minute facepalm that is "Accidental Racist." Yes, there was a whole album - Wheelhouse - but let's be real, the other 16 tracks are going to spend a lot of time in the shadow of this awkward, sentimental mope through surface-level race relations.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
    June 7, 2013 - Creative Loafing Charlotte
Quotes

  • Tracy Lawrence in Forbes
    This was something that we all wanted to sing,Lawrence said of the hit. "It was something that was in our wheelhouse. I think we all related to it."
  • Mark Cuban in ESPN
    I think that's right within the NBA's wheelhouse,Dallas owner Mark Cuban said. "They say the NBA stands for `Nothing But Attorneys,' so we're going to be great at dealing with those issues."
  • Greg Biffle in Boston Globe (registration)
    It's right in our wheelhouse,Biffle said. "We won here last year, we're good on mile-and-a-half tracks, and we had a great Charlotte test [last week]. Man, I feel good about it."

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