Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would-be refugees who were shot down by Khmer Rouge frontier guards. With considerably greater ease, others manage to evade the purgatory of Pathet Lao rule by crossing the Mekong River, the poorly guarded frontier between Laos and Thailand. From Viet Nam, thousands of refugees -the so-called boat people-have sailed to Thailand or Malaysia in overcrowded junks. An equal number have died in the attempt...
...similar to the one at Yale last fall. Union issues cause a good deal of dissension among the workers. The younger, more vociferous employees tend to take a more strident stance in their dealings with the University while the older, more settled group is less willing to rock the boat and risk sacrificing the relative security they have gained. With a high unemployment rate, the fear of losing a steady, respectable source of income breeds caution: 1978 is not the time to gamble...
...wedding, cars jammed the farm land below the house, and vans hauled guests up the hill. Beyond the pool were tables of food (roast beef, lobster balls) and booze (California pink champagne, Blue Nun wine, Billy Beer and gallons of harder stuff). A large aluminum boat was packed with ice and jammed with wine and champagne...
There will be a Love Boat look-alike in a show called Coastocoast, the only difference being that the action will take place aboard the planes of a New York-to-Los Angeles airline rather than a cruise ship. Legs will presumably have lots of them, all belonging to Las Vegas showgirls. Produced by Garry Marshall, who is also the man behind ABC's Laverne and Shirley, it will probably have its polished, if dim, comedic style...
Their bosses will like his grand conclusion even less: the press is too busy producing and selling its product on deadline, and is too closely allied with the ruling business establishment, to exert the kind of boat-rocking power denounced by such critics as Senator William Proxmire and a few TV Guide columnists. Thus it is safer and more profitable for a newspaper to denounce "Son of Sam" or the Hillside Strangler than neighborhood supermarket pricing policies. Especially on ad-filled Thursdays. "My life in journalism has persuaded me that the press too often tries to guard its freedom...