Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shotgun" microphone that can be aimed at a point up to several hundred yards away, pick up even a hushed conversation. Fair game: conversations in a nearby house, a skyscraper across the street, a boat on a lake. Best protection against the shotgun: talk behind closed windows...
...from mowing down 40 White Russians in the 1917 Revolution's aftermath, finds herself marooned on a Caspian isle with a handsome Czarist officer. Peeling off their wet clothing after their swim to shore, the ill-starred couple falls head-over-Hegel in love. Inevitably, however, when a boat heaves up to rescue the decadent nobleman, the trigger-happy lady sadly perceives her Marxist duty, hauls out her gun and chalks up her beloved as The Forty-First...
...Louise's luck was phenomenal. She got to the freewheeling West when her father, after serving in the Mexican War, settled in tiny Downieville, Calif., where his earnings went into worthless mining stocks. Louise, her mother and grandmother joined him after a journey of 5,000 miles by boat and muleback. At 16, pretty, dark-haired Louise made a disastrous marriage to a local doctor who was as calamitous a speculator as her father. When he was found dying at Poverty Hill, Calif., riddled by drugs and alcohol, 22-year-old Louise was left penniless with a crippled child...
Cornell's great varsity eight retained its title as Eastern rowing champion by edging Yale in the finals on Lake Carnegie. The Crimson boat was eliminated by Navy in one of the morning heats as the Middies avenged an earlier defeat at the hands of the varsity...
...second year in a row, the Princeton lightweights won the Eastern title and will therefore be the United States' representative at the Henley Regatta. Their margin of victory on Saturday at the Sprints was a scant two seats over an onrushing Crimson boat...