Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some problems with advance work on the road. But we all made a good effort. In the last ten days of the campaign, I felt like the real differences in the two men started to come through. Ford was very safe, maintaining the status quo, not rocking the boat. Carter [conveyed] the feeling that he's going to try some things [and be] bolder in his approach to problems. I think we did so well because there is a willingness to take a risk, because [people] want a change...
From his first day in office, Jimmy Carter wants to be an activist, innovative President in the boat-rocking mold of Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S., Carter says, is best served by "a strong, independent and aggressive President, working with a strong, independent Congress." It is no mere oversight that he uses "aggressive" only to describe the office he seeks. He regards Congress as "inherently incapable of leadership"-particularly the kind of forceful leadership that he plans...
...readier to venture in the dark. They haven't had their teeth knocked out as yet, and they are ready to take chances." Washington Lawyer Lewis Engman, 40, head of the Federal Trade Commission under Nixon, agreed: "One constant is the willingness to take risks, to row the boat out beyond the shore without the assurance that you will be able to get back...
Many a small-boat sailor prides himself on knowing what a No. 3 Rip-pingille stove is from the reading of this novel. A band of literary aficionados accounts some of Childers' prose as the finest ever written in English on the experience of sailing. First published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands caused a sensation by speaking of a plausible German invasion of England. It has been reprinted enough to become a minor classic. Generations of readers have leaned back joyfully into the author's affectionate knowledge of the sea as they follow the adventures...
...waited on deck," reports Carruthers, the narrator, a clever, foppish young Foreign Office sprig who has just joined Davies, a sea-struck Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward...