Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, we said there can be no more business as usual until the war ends. We closed down 169 universities and perhaps the swan boat concession in Boston Common October 15. But the force of the gesture was lost on the great majority of Washington policymakers...
...city-dwellers up the walls or out to the countryside. With a friend, I'd walked up from the Village to Central Park, then full of softball games and lingering couples, street musicians, porno peddlers, family picnics and friendly cops. To walk through it that day, to row a boat in its cramped pond was to welcome back the sentimentality and nostalgia forestalled during the year by sterner pursuits. When with sweat-stained shirts and feet aching we decided to move to the East Side where the John Korty film was playing, in an archetypal art box complete with plants...
...member of champion crews at Cornell, Stowe had stroked Philadelphia's amateur Vesper Boat Club to a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics and kept in shape by rowing on the Saigon River while a Navy lieutenant. He extolled crew as a way to learn the virtues of "discipline, sacrifice, teamwork and sportsmanship in an atmosphere of men." At Columbia, he said, crew should be a refuge for "white-hat" fugitives from the creeping culture of "cruddy weirdo slobs...
...What was the demise of Stuart Little's boat race in Central Park...
...winning boat, coxed by Dave Wineberg, included Dave Tew, Dave Fellows, Rick Wilson, Ross McConnell, Phil Sancken, Jim Evarets, Phil Harris, and Chuck Czeisler. They jumped out to a short lead early in the race, and held on for the distance to claim the silver trophy and champagne...