Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week a harsher reality intruded. Picked up by a torpedo boat, whose commander was one of the hundreds of officers sacked by Papadopoulos, the five were sped to the port of Piraeus. From there they were taken to Korydallos prison and placed behind bars, along with the sixth member of the junta's inner circle, former Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis. All six await trial on charges of insurrection and high treason. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of death by firing squad...
...past two U.S. women's eights, the Nationals winners, made poor showings on the international racing circuit. Winner Radcliffe placed second to last at the World University Games in 1973, while Vesper Boat Club finished last at the European Championships in Lucerne last summer...
...which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained electrical failures aboard ships and planes crossing the triangle. He also talks of great waterspouts and baffling stretches of "white water" that were noted...
...Cairo Police, a crew made up of students from an academy comparable to America's West Point, took the rematch with Harvard by a two-second margin, or half a boat length, over the 2000 meter course. It was the same difference by which the Crimson had defeated the Police in the Monday race...
Harry Parker's eight lost its regular stroke Al Shealy for the races, when he came down with a bronchial infection. Shealy, who stroked the United States eight to victory in the world championships at Lucerne, Switzerland, last summer, was sorely missed as Parker's boat never seemed to settle into its usual powerful stroking...