Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's heavyweight crew, top contender to represent the United States in the Olympics, recovered from a poor start to edge the Vesper Boat Club, its foremost challenger, in a 2000-meter race Saturday in Pelham Manor...
...visual sightings of helicopters were made, and reconnaissance planes found no wreckage. But at about the same time as the U.S. response, several strange things happened. A U.S. Navy patrol boat was sunk off the DMZ by unidentified fire, the nearby Australian destroyer H.M.S. Hobart was holed in at least 200 places by what turned out to be three U.S. air-to-air Sparrow missiles, and three other vessels, including the cruiser U.S.S. Boston, reported that they had been fired...
...general idea is to take a boat out into the deep, open her up to 50-60 knots, and pray. It helps to have a basic knowledge of navigation, a strong stomach, and a desire to get the ordeal over with as quickly as possible. Lewis, 34, who last week won the Bahamas 500 for the second year in a row, was once asked what made him go so fast. Said he simply: "Fear...
...Mercury engines, Odell Lewis was worried not so much about winning as merely staying afloat. A draining, plug had popped out of Mona Lou's hull; when Lewis pulled into Nassau to refuel, he had to leap overboard and plug the hole with rags to keep the boat from sinking. Finally, after 10 hr. 54 min. of whomping on the water, during which he averaged 54 m.p.h., Lewis crossed the finish line to win the $10,000 first prize by a margin of only four seconds over Runner-Up Bill Sirois' 31-ft. Bertram. "You have...
...this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery. It is the difference between maintaining a yacht and day-chartering a party boat...