Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone. Said its retiring commander, 78-year-old Patrick Ratigan: "Remember the Maine? If we were not skeptical of the Russians and everybody took a noncommittal attitude like we did with Spain . . . we'd wake up some morning and learn that we'd lost more than a boat." Cried the Order's new commander, 71-year-old J. Clark Mansfield: "Teddy Roosevelt would have rolled up his sleeves, pulled Joe Stalin across the conference table by the mustache and told Stalin to get the hell out of Europe...
...Norwegian Airlines Kvitbjoern (White Bear), a Sandringham flying boat, was one of the fanciest airliners aloft. An elevator carried its steward between the kitchen on the upper deck and the dining room and snack bar on the lower...
Half an hour later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
...afternoon, most people in Fiumicino like to go for a boat ride. Left-wingers were disgusted with the crowds (including many trippers from Rome), who overfilled every available craft. The sun was setting in a fresh westerly breeze as the boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing...
...boat captain, Jim Queeny, who turned in the fastest time in the novice singles trials last week, lowered it by three and a half seconds to win his class title in 3:28.5 over John Brewer...