Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fishing boat's pulpit stood the intrepid harpooner, dart-tipped pole in hand. Down flashed the steel into a huge sperm whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove...
...MERCHANTS OF DREAMS (A & M Records). Peter Pan, Captain Hook, the clock-gulping Croc; Dorothy from Oz and Alice from Wonderland are aboard for this Strange Night Voyage. "Grow young," plead The Merchants. "Stay young while you can." And off these dream vendors sail in a rocking-beat boat to celebrate the joys of childhood fantasies. A solid performance, full of vitality, taste and style, with meticulous, well-wrought orchestration...
...allowed to go on unchecked. Barry Goldwater, Senator John Tower of Texas and Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina?three of the most conservative men in the party?counterattacked on Nixon's behalf. Goldwater chatted with Southerners in his hotel suite. Thurmond and Tower took some waverers for boat rides. Their message was basic and concise. The real contest was between Nixon and Rockefeller; every defection to Reagan would ultimately only benefit Rockefeller...
...small sacrifice for Attorney Richard B. Sobol to help defend Gary Duncan, a Negro boat captain accused of cruelty to juveniles in Plaquemines Parish, La. To handle Duncan's case and to aid other Southern Negroes, Sobol gave up a comfortable $24,000-a-year post with a top Washington, D.C., law firm and joined a group of attorneys who are serving the civil rights movement...
...send our boat ashore...