Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skippers of which were Cartor Brown, Addison Closson, A. C. Langworthy, and Fred Hoppin. Since the races were held within Larchmont Harbor, conditions were similar to those which the Crimson are accustomed to on the Charles, although the water was slightly choppier. A jammed center-board resulted in one boat's capsizing and reduced the Crimson entries to three after the third race...
...President Eisenhower. Whispering in the secretary's ear is his brother, Allen Dulles, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Between Dulles and Castillo Armas, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy (now envoy to Thailand) passes out greenbacks to eager Guatemalan soldiers. As presumably downtrodden workers load a banana boat, and the battered corpses of little children lie unnoticed underfoot, Archbishop Verolino, the papal nuncio, blesses the joyous scene...
Operated on last October for spinal injuries he got in World War II when a Japanese destroyer sliced his Navy PT boat in two, Kennedy will be laid up for several more months...
...insurance executive believes that the major hindrance to changing rates is simply inertia. Said he: "There was a feeling in the business that things were going along pretty good as they were, that a change would give rise to a whole new series of problems and why rock the boat?" For the nation's 93 million policyholders (who have $339 billion in life insurance in force), rocking the boat with the special policies means a wave of healthy competition in the industry...
...characters in the history of U.S. drama, Colonel Nimrod Wildfire of Kentucky occupies a special place. He claimed to be "half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage...