Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leaving the road behind, I entered a strange world where water is seasonal king and the only transport is a large, cane-covered canoe known as the country boat. For seven hours we plied deeper into Gopalganj subdivision in southern Faridpur district. The two wiry oarsmen found their way by taking note of such landmarks as a forlornly decaying maharajah's palace and giant butterfly nets hovering like outsized flamingos on stilt legs at water's edge...
...competition for the Boston Globe Challenging Trophy in the Elite Eight-Oared Shells will include crews from the Besper Boat Club, Penn, Wisconsin, Princeton, and last year's co-victors, Northeastern and the Union Boat Club...
High winds precluded the use of spinnakers and caused many break-downs, including a snapped mast on the Crimson boat in the seventh race. Poor starts were largely responsible for the team's lackluster performance, as they finished fourth behind winner Yale...
Black lake, black boat, two black cut-paper people...
...intellectual," Paolozzi observed, "a Coca-Cola bottle was a phenomenon. In America it is merely a way of life." One of his collages, from 1948, contains the word POP issuing from the barrel of a gun: a prediction that amuses Paolozzi today. "People sometimes say that I missed the boat, that I should have made a career out of Pop art. But I was never keen on it. I felt there should be more to it than simple artifacts, consumer goods; and I'm still more interested in making layers of paradox and irony...