Word: boated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while chasing his parrot from a tropical tree. At the funeral, Florentino arrives to declare his undying love for the widow, and he and Fermina resume their relationship of a half century before, celebrating their union with a riverboat journey. The president of the riverboat company, Florentino has the boat's captain take advantage of the ever-present cholera epidemic to hoist the yellow flag of quarantine so that the lovers never have to disembark and can celebrate their love "forever...
...defending-national champion Harvard varsity boat (6-1) will be trying to win its first Sprints championship since 1985 and thus avenge a disappointing fourth-place finish in last year's race...
Harvard's first freshman boat (4-0) has defeated all of its prospective opponents in the Sprints final by at least four-and-a-half seconds this season except for Yale, which it hasn't raced...
...second-seeded varsity boat will be racing against fourth-seed Rutgers (Lightweight Coach Charles Butt's alma mater), sixth-seed Cornell, Penn, and Columbia in its preliminary race. Princeton, which beat Harvard by three-and-a-half seconds, is seeded first, with Yale third and Navy fifth...
...melted away peaceably. Shouting erupted upstream when the returning Mexicans found that their boatman had tied up the rowboat on the far side of the river and gone to bed. The problem was resolved when a young man rolled up his trousers and waded across to bring the boat back to the U.S. side. By 1:30 a.m. there were no human sounds at Lajitas, only the quiet gurgle of the Rio Grande under the moonlight, dividing two nations, undisturbed...