Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, beribboned and jaunty, fresh off the boat from Japan, Colonel Murray had another, smaller key. He surrendered it to questioning Customs men. It unlocked his safe-deposit box-and out tumbled a cache of more than 500 diamonds, worth $200.,000, which he had smuggled in last year. They were, he claimed, "legitimate loot." That had an unfortunate sound; he changed it to "legitimate souvenirs." When he first went to Japan, he said, "there were jewels and precious metals hidden all over the country-diamonds by the bucketful...
This week Scotto was still trying to raise money, but the singers had given up hope of doing any opera in the U.S. They were rehearsing a one-night benefit for themselves to pay their way home. Somebody had told them they could get passage cheap on a freight boat out of Baltimore...
...down the coast it was the same story. A fishing boat with a well built into its hull to keep its catch alive steered into one of the streaks. As soon as the yellow-green water got into the well, the captive fish swam to the surface, gulping air. Then they were as dead as their uncaught fellows outside...
...will find his work cut out for him. Canadian Vickers Ltd. has produced only five North Stars at an estimated cost of $16,000,000 to the Canadian Government. Not one is yet in scheduled operation on T.C.A. (TIME, July 29). If Electric Boat's capital and know-how could do what Canadian Vickers and the Government could not, it would be the most important deal yet for a Canadian war plant...
...plot boils up a satisfactory climax and the audience starts fumbling for its galoshes when the picture goes through its first red light. More, and duller plot-and then it passes another stopping place, shipping boredom like a leaky boat. By the time the movie decides it has had enough, the audience is way ahead...