Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nishimura had two battleships, a heavy cruiser and four destroyers; Shima, behind him, had two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and four destroyers. Awaiting them at the far end of Surigao Strait was a much stronger Seventh Fleet force under Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf. Alerted by PT-boat reports, Oldendorf was ready...
Against the Crimson heavies, whose shell was optimistically named "Grand Challenge Cup 1914," the first Isis crew set out in a boat named "1869," this being the date of the only time when first university-wide crews from both institutions had previously met. Again, Isis rushed to an early lead and at the first quarter led by a narrow canvas. Never rowing below a thirty-six, Isis kept its lead until after the mile, when the Crimson's weight and power began to tell. But even the final Crimson sprint failed to shake Isis, and the race was not settled...
...final day's racing on Saturday, the 'fifties first enjoyed a relatively easy victory over the Union Boat Club in the morning and then whipped an exhausted University of London eight to recapture the Thames Challenge Cup in the afternoon finals. In the Grand finals Perry Boyden stroked the heavies to a convincing win over the Thames Rowing Club...
...verdict on English rowing the Crimson victories are inconclusive. The second Isis boat, which materialized in less than a month from men whose colleges did not send eights to Henley, lost by only three seconds to a well-integrated and highly trained crew. The first Isis boat, representing an incomplete university eight, did equally well against one of the strongest American crews ever to cross the Atlantic...
...with the Administration too concerned with the "spirit of Camp David" and too reluctant to tip the boat, the U.N. has in turn been reluctant even to use strong language against palpable Chinese repression of the Tibetan revolt. Admittedly, there is a legal question of jurisdiction, just as there was, significantly, with the Sudetenland and Manchuria and Ethiopia...