Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
...Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
After 20 hours of fighting, the rebels retreated. In their wake they left hundreds dead; the central marketplace, the Roman Catholic Cathedral and more than half of the town were in smoldering ruins. More than 25,000 refugees were without shelter, water and rice; another 35,000 fled by boat to Zamboanga on Mindanao-an island that itself is racked with Moslem insurgency...
...date, more than 60,000 visitors have paid two dollars each for the round-trip boat ride and one-hour guided tour of the pen. Though there are 13 scheduled tours a day, come gale, fog or high water, tickets for weekends and holidays are sold out a month in advance. Tourists include some of the Indians who occupied Alcatraz in 1970, penologists, historians, police officers, prison wardens, troops of schoolchildren and an occasional former inmate (one ex-con insisted on getting married there, so that his wife would understand what he had been through...
...reason that Smith gets away with heresies that would not be tolerated from others in the profession is that his boat rocking is done from a well-established position in the first-class section. Back in Lakeland, Fla., his practice earned him $100,000 a year and will probably be worth more when his presidency ends. One big client was the phosphate industry, which only recently lost its battle to avoid a special tax. But during the years Smith was lobbying for the industry, he was always able to make good on his boast: "There ain't going...