Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shells and began the long pull upstream to Chelsea. Traffic on the grey river ignored them, and they had to thread their way with care. Only a handful of spectator launches followed in their wake, but the six oarsmen were competing in the world's oldest boat race. After 2½ centuries, Thames rivermen still prize Thomas Doggett's loud livery and silver badge. The assurance that they will do so "forever" remains unbroken...
...Missed Boat...
...this controversy about Billy Graham's method of getting us to glory land [TIME, July 8] leaves me cold. Catholics and Protestants are nice people, but they'll be so busy checking routes and accommodations that the boat will leave them...
...week's end Sailor Boston had changed his mind, decided that he will try again. "I just need someone to accompany me and a 40-foot boat," he said jauntily. "Then we'd make it for sure. I still have great affection...
...Manhattan couple turned dude-ranch managers. On the assumption that the public is now hopelessly Tanner-Dennis-Rowans-addicted, his publishers are currently offering two seasonal pick-me-ups, one a reissue entitled House Party (originally published in 1954) and the other a collaboration with Dorothy (The Crystal Boat) Erskine called The Pink Hotel. Neither equals the highly carbonated humors of Auntie Mame, but each is bubbly enough to fill the summer air with burps of spasmodic mirth...