Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner had Intrepid nosed out Australia's Gretel 11 in the fifth and deciding America's Cup race last week than the spectator boat America, a replica of the schooner that first won the cup in 1851, hoisted the signal flags for Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum-which was to be proved). A more fitting postscript would have been V.Q.P., for vincit qui patitur-he that can endure overcometh. In defeating Gretel II by 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, Intrepid had endured the longest (14 days) and strongest challenge in decades...
...soft, fluky winds. In a series of aggressive tacks, Picker overhauled the Aussies and rounded the first mark with Intrepid 44 sec. ahead. It was a lead he never relinquished-though by the fifth mark the desperate Aussies had shaved the advantage to 20 sec., or barely two boat lengths. Then Picker, reading the shifting wind perfectly, put Intrepid on a starboard tack while Hardy held Gretel II on port in hope of finding a more favorable breeze. He failed. Deftly covering Gretel H's attempts to recover, Intrepid sailed home on a close reach...
...final analysis, there is a deeper frustration, which can put a dissident taxpayer in the same boat with the student radicals he detests. Largely impotent in the real world, the student turns his campus into a battleground because it seems the only place he has a chance to win. The taxpayer, just as impotent, and forced to keep paying for things he abhors, is throwing his weight around in the only arena where it has any effect. Janet Wells, president of Scarsdale's League of Women Voters, explained the revolt in words that could have come from any young...
...them as The Sea When Young, The Sea When Absent and The Sea in Being. The first two apparently dealt with a famous painter named Thomas Hudson enjoying a Bahama vacation with his teen-age sons and then, later, hunting German submarines around the Caribbean in his fishing boat during World War II. In his sins, sons, sub chasing and syntax, Thomas Hudson greatly resembled another straight and true artist named Ernest Hemingway...
...though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what is clearly Hemingway's famous fishing boat, the Pilar...