Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved in crew racing, you're on the team. I pulled my oar a long time. Suddenly I realized the race was over, and that we were going the wrong way. But you know what happens when you drop your oar? It may throw you out of the boat. Well, finally I did drop my oar, and I've been trying to swim to shore ever since-through a lot of muck...
MAYBE THIS LACK of spontaneity is deliberate. What I've noticed since Diamonds are Forever is a trend toward genre self parody. There is much tongue in cheekiness here. The final chase sequence, a fifteen minute combined car-boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, even manages to introduce and develop a major character, a sheriff tightly based on the Dodge Sheriff of advertisement fame...
Then, Maine struck again. Angered that 200 lobster pots had been cut from their moorings, a patrol flagged down New Hampshire Lobsterman Edwin Capone. He allowed his boat to be taken in tow, though only after a Maine warden reached for his gun. "Maine has declared war on us!" cried Governor Thomson hyperbolically. He told his state's lobstermen: "You are soldiers in an important battle for the future of the state." But he promptly moved to disarm the crisis before the two states reach their Lobster Thermidor and start shooting, by filing a claim in the U.S. Supreme...
Their prospects: slim. An admiral in Paris let it slip that the first nuclear test would probably take place "a few days before the end of June." Chances are that the French navy will track down and remove the pickets and their four boats before the blasts are triggered. (Another protest boat was intercepted on the eve of similar tests last year...
While 'Cliffe coach John Baker had been cautiously apprehensive about Radcliffe's chances prior to the nationals, the 'Cliffe eight, despite a slim .1-second margin over the Vesper Boat Club in the preliminaries on Friday, convincingly proved on Sunday that it was the only legitimate contender for the national crown...