Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has denied Albania membership) that the U.S. request was an "abridgement of Albanian sovereignty." The U.S. Government disdained to answer the protest, solved the problem simply by sending the destroyers to the edge of the three-mile limit. The mission and its baggage were ferried out by small boat...
John F. Kennedy, 29, boyish, rawboned, Harvard-bred son of ex-U.S. Am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy. To win the Democratic primary in Massachusetts' 11th District, which has rarely sent a Republican to Congress, ex-P-T boat-commander Kennedy made 450 speeches, plumped first for international issues, then switched to such local matters as the restoration of Boston's port and the encouragement of New England industries...
...time it takes him to catch on that he is working for a murdering thug, Chauffeur Cummings has fallen in love with the boss's wife (Michele Morgan). How can the terrified lovers, surrounded by cutthroats, escape together on the night boat to Havana? In the better type of thriller, villains are foiled through the hero's ingenuity. The Chase's happy ending leans far too heavily on wrenched coincidence and pouncing Providence...
...muscles of his "bronzed back writhed like snakes," he heaved the cannon overboard. It landed spang in the British boat below. The boat split wide open; King George's minions gasped and gurgled. "Great God o' the Mountain," cried Holdfast, "what a glorious fight!" "Ugh!" grunted one of Holdfast's Mohegan warriors, proudly eyeing the mighty torso of his chief...
...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...