Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enterprising newspaper printed a story about Aoki's work, and nearby farmers marched on the colony, pulled the huts down with ropes (they were afraid to touch the boards) and burned them. Aoki's small band got until sundown to get off Okinawa. They fled by boat to an uninhabited island off the coast to start all over again...
Equil that iron-clad boat, my mother...
...have been a lot of products from it." Said Roy Howard: "I wish to the Lord you were where I am. I've been lied to by everyone in this room." "Roy," the President reminisced, "do you realize it has been 20 years since we were on that boat?" (i.e., the President Coolidge, when Ike, a major, was en route to the Philippines to become MacArthur's chief of staff and Howard to cover the inauguration of President Quezon). Said Howard: "A lot of things have happened since then." Retorted Ike: "Boy, are you telling...
Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of the New York Athletic Club one evening last week was as studied and serious as a premission meeting of wartime PT-boat skippers...
...trembling Trimmer found himself leading the first Britons since Dunkirk back onto the French coast. Somehow Trimmer's sergeant blew up a rail line, while the press officer quoted tipsy encouragement to the captain. "For God's sake, come on," squeaked Trimmer from the small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out." After the press man edited the exploit, of course, the haircutter...