Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing a tune titled, all too appropriately. Melting Pot. Suddenly a tremendous blast shook the vessel. "I thought another ship had hit us in the fog," said West, but when he rushed on deck he saw three men in wetsuits heading toward Scheveningen beach in a motor-powered rubber boat. West sped back to his microphone and shouted: "May Day, May Day, this is Radio Northsea. We are on fire. A bomb...
...well-meaning American abroad, the fresh, inquiring member of a new generation. The narrative becomes a loose variant of the "road novel," a series of set-piece scenes in which Peter's ideas are tested by experience. In a hilarious initial encounter with retired Kansas schoolteachers on the boat train, Peter learns the depths of his own anti-Americanism. Later a wretched Thanksgiving spent at the home of a U.S. general confronts him with the anguish of American inertia in pursuing un-American aims in Viet Nam. When he retreats to Italy at Christmas to salve his soul among...
ROSE ROCKS THE BOAT...
...buildings and shadowed by vehicular traffic, the Joneses are nearly run down by the Kuddle-Toi, Too, an expanse of costly cabin cruiser operated by a corpulent man who apparently makes little distinction between yachting and barreling a large sedan. "We're gonna crush your crappy little boat!" cries the man's wife, as Mrs. Jones skillfully mars the word Kuddle with her paddle. In Delaware, Jones accidentally splits his wife's scalp with an anchor, and later nearly comes to grief against a drawbridge as a guest on a Chinese junk manned by incompetents and flying...
...crew has had mixed success in racing against Harvard boats. In a B-boat intramural competition. the team beat out Leverett, Quincy, and Lowell and qualified for last Tuesday's B-boat finals, where they placed last...