Word: boat
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Thus when it came to launching the Ohio, the first of the Trident A-subs, at Electric Boat's Groton yard, the toughest thing Glenn said was, "Verification must be better defined ... or we risk having this vital treaty disapproved [by the Senate] or sent back to the President for further directed negotiating...
Meantime, events in Indochina and the labors of revisionist historians and other experts with second thoughts are bringing the American tragedy there into a new perspective. The war that was fought so much with symbols in the American mind has now acquired an entirely new set of symbols: the boat people fleeing and drowning, former South Vietnamese soldiers in re-education camps ringed with barbed wire, Pol Pot's murderous regime in Cambodia. When the French were colonizing Indochina in the middle of the 19th century, the Vietnamese were just in the process of conquering Cambodia. Now they have...
Despite rowing on an abnormally long 2000-meter course, the 'Cliffe eight managed to stay even with the Dartmouth boat for the next 1000 meters, even pulling half-seat ahead at some points...
...boats were neck and neck at the 300 meter mark, and the heavies expected to nab the Big Green with their sprint. But the Dartmouth eight pulled a surprise, beginning its sprint early--with 300 meters to go--edging just in front of the 'Cliffe boat, which had grabbed the lead at 1500 meters...
...Radcliffe J.V. eight lost to a very strong Dartmouth squad. Dartmouth's J.V. boat jumped out in front with a fast start; and the Radcliffe team, suffering from a short stroke, never got the power it needed to challenge...