Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches the island, he sees a girl of seven or so on the deck, and in his mind a hallucination forms in which the child becomes a sexual victim...
...First World War. The Great War. We got shipped to Liverpool in 1918, train to Southhampton, boat to Le Havre, and in we went. Not much time to think. I was at the Marne, St. Quentin, Belleau Woods, the Wheatfields...
...answer seemed to lie in the complicated formula of twelve-meter-boat design, basically the art of making improvements on existing models. U.S. Designer Olin Stephens improved on the best there was: Vim, a 19-year-old Stephens creation that swept the class back in 1939. Britain's David Boyd, in his first attempt at a twelve-meter, had to improve principally on Evaine, an old British boat that Vim trounced...
...unchallengeably at the peak of its power as England was, say, in 1830, with 50 invulnerable years as Top Nation ahead, then I should passionately envy American writers. But I do not see their position in those terms at all; I believe that essentially we are in the same boat...
...annual University Handicaps, an informal running race, will take off from the starting line in front of the Newell Boat House at 4:45 today. Anyone is eligible, and post entries are allowed in the traditional event. Amateurs, old pro's and hula-hoop champions are invited to participate...