Word: boat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international waters and shoot anyone attempting to land. Indonesia (whose refugee population jumped by 7,000, to 31,500, in less than a week) said it would no longer grant even temporary asylum to the refugees. Hong Kong, which had been swamped in recent weeks not only by refugee "boat people" from Viet Nam but also by illegal immigrants from China, dispatched its Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, to Britain and the U.S. to discuss the problem...
...somehow, as he climbed 10 ft. to allow the boat's approach, he found calmer air and suddenly mustered a burst of energy. For the rest of the trip, Albatross remained well clear of the water...
...might be appropriate to hold the ceremony on the Staten Island Ferry (where both her fiancé and his father work as deck hands). Having received the necessary clearance, the couple were married last week on the bridge deck of the good ship Cornelius G. Kolff shortly after the boat left Staten Island on its 25-minute run to Manhattan. The cost of the love boat was modest indeed: members of the wedding and guests were charged the standard 25? ferry fare...
...Yuck." "But so typical." Julie says, "My mother had this man living in the house. I felt as if I was in the way. She would agree with him about things she would object to if it were just us. Mothers don't want to rock the boat with men." "Really." Everybody agrees on that...
Coach Peter Huntsman reshuffled his boat several times, and the women in black bedeviled Williams and Cornell; but they never could triumph over the Terriers...