Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't, I'd move on." He moved on and on for the next 28 years. He got jobs as a census taker, factory worker, salesman. Once, during the Depression, he worked his way around South America on the tug Mira Flores. A storm disabled the boat, and "we lived off flying fish for four or five days. Caught them, bit off the heads and ate the rest...
...fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor"), and the U.S. ("I'd a kilt my father if he hadn't caught the boat over here...
...president and chairman of General Dynamics Corp., 61-year-old John Jay Hopkins wears many hats, and a feather in almost every one. When he took over eight years ago, the company-then known as Electric Boat-was coasting along with an annual sales volume of $26.9 million, mostly in submarines. Since then, he has picked up aircraftmakers Canadair Ltd. in Canada and giant Consolidated Vultee, changed the company name, expanded into guided missiles, atomic research and atomic submarines (the U.S.S. Nautilus), and boosted volume 25-fold (to $649 million last year). Last week Jay Hopkins put another feather...
...time train this crew defeated the varsity by nearly half a length and the jv's by by more that two lengths. So far this season the Yardlings have not given Joan than a length to any comparable crew during its two races. Leavitt will row the same boat which has defeated M.I.T., Syracuse, Princeton, and B.U. Race time...
Wilde shook up his JV boat after Tech easily defeated it and put in six new men, including John Hadik at stroke. The change seems to have revitalized the eight and it finished only one-half length behind the varsity heavies in a time trial this week...