Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans found it hard to fathom Pastor Martin Niemöller. After V-E day, the gaunt-faced old U-boat commander had dived repentantly, leaving a bubble of advice to his fellow Germans to confess "the crimes committed during the last twelve years." But last week, as the pastor-commander surfaced again, he seemed to be flying the old German flag. He bade Germans take no further voluntary part in denazification proceedings...
...hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
...hitch was that the U.S. Senate's Small Business Committee took a dim view of the deal. It had just taken the committeemen five months to find out its terms, and they doubted its value to the U.S. Ambassador Wrong's dream boat would not have plain sailing...
Fortnight ago, his nose for news began to twitch again. He presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home. Then he cleared his billiard-table-sized desk, and caught a boat train. In Manhattan last week, four hours after stepping off the Queen Elizabeth, he gave the Council on Foreign Relations a lucid lecture on Britain's "concealed inflation" (the Crowther view: an oversupply of demand) and its inevitable end ("we are disconcerted now by the boominess of the boom, as we shall be equally disconcerted by the slumpiness of the slump...
...book contains complete scores of every Harvard-Yale baseball game and similar statistics about every football game, track meet, and boat race between the two colleges. Moreover, it contains photographs of every team with a few exceptions, which, so far as is known, were never photographed. A feature of the volume is the fact the all reports and figures have involved the most careful research in contrast to ordinary records, even contemporary ones, which were often incomplete and erroneous...