Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd shouted encouragement as the demonstrators boarded the vessel. The protesters threw oil barrels marked "Texaco" over the side of the boat, and raised signs calling for Nixon's impeachment...
...owners of the boat, however, said no. As it became apparent that the demonstrators intended to hang Nixon from the "Beaver's" mast, George Davis approached a member of the People's Bicentennial and asked him to keep the caricature away from the boat...
...this boat be involved in anything political," Davis said. "Personally...
...Among innumerable brushes with the law, he had been indicted along with three Mafia gangsters in 1968 for offering kickbacks in return for Teamster loans. Three years later, the indictment was dismissed for lack of evidence. As it happened, a crucial Government witness turned up dead-floating in his boat down a river, the back of his head removed by a shotgun blast. "Nick has always conducted himself like a real gentleman," says McMahon, explaining their friendship. Did Ed know of Nick's association with the Mafia? "Hell, they're everywhere. There...
...McGee mixture is an agreeable blend of boat lore, suspense, machismo, sex and lighthearted sadism. The Scarlet Ruse turns on the theft of $500,000 worth of rare postage stamps. In The Turquoise Lament, McGee learns that a thieving Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle...