Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was a boat crossing the Atlantic with black aboard, we'd follow its progress across the Atlantic, and wait for it to dock. If we heard it was at Liverpool, some of us went out to meet the trucks on the way from the docks. We begged the drivers not to stop even for a meal on the road, but to rush the black to the factory. It was terrible, desperate...
...Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...
...drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality. In the dark alleys, these nights, the stillness is broken now & then by the shuffling gait of a homeless seaman or the importuning of a hard-working streetwalker, dragging a drunken, crippled U-boat veteran who staggers along on his crutches...
Weeks of tugging in the Newell Boat-house tanks during the winter months, however, convince many that crew is too rough a road to water travel...
There are enough men with competitive rowing behind them on the present freshman squad to fill two and a half boats. Love, however, expects to have several of the many novices he has been training since October on his first two eights and a large number of them in the third boat and in the reserves...