Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poachers can sell their prey for about $6 per foot, but they do not get them without a struggle. Poaching must be done at night-partly to avoid agents and partly to catch the slumbering alligators. The poacher blinds the animal with a spotlight, then approaches in his boat and fires a "brain shot" between the eyes with a .22-cal. rifle. A good poacher gets a rolled skin into his boat in 15 minutes. "They can get a 'gator out of his jacket real fast," says Federal Agent Andrew Pursley...
...pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...
...junior varisty race Saturday, Harvard demolished Princeton by 17.7 seconds and the hapless Engineers by 29.8 seconds or about seven and a half boat lengths...
...quick lead over the Middies which the Crimson never relinquished, streaking to a two-length victory. The Crimson were clocked at 6:22.9 for the 2000-meter course, 8.9 seconds better than the Navy eight. The 6:22.9 time was the fastest turned in by any boat--lightweight or heavyweight--in Saturday's racing...
...action, Harvard's lightweights suffered a surprising upset at the hands of a strong Navy boat. The race, which, for pure excitement, was the best attraction of the day, was decided in the last 10 strokes of the 2000-meter course. At that point the Midshipmen sprinted past Harvard's fading JV eight to nip the Crimson at the finish by one second. Navy finished at 6:43.9 while the Crimson came...