Word: boated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fare as well. A valiant effort, but unrewarded with the tangent, visible manifestations of victory. No trophy to reward the long hours of work at Red Top. Humiliation and shame is the immediate legacy of their race. The sickening feeling of failure felt in the muscles when the Yale boat passed them and hung ahead out of reach...
...most of those who rowed last Saturday in the varsity boat, however, this year was their last. Varsity stroke George Hunnewell, seven man Rich Kennelly, five man Claude Sirlin, JV seven man Andy Hawley, six man Alex Litvak, three man Gordon Gwynne-Timothy have rowed their last Harvard-Yale race. Rowed it and won it by 10 boat lengths, the 10th largest margin since World War I. Some, like roomates Hunnewell and Kennelly, have never lost...
...later he talked Perot into forking over an additional $100,000. Perot has no idea what happened to it; all he knows is that in mid-1986 North asked for $1 million more, to be handed over to someone who was supposed to bring five hostages to Cyprus by boat. A Perot courier flew to the island, sat around for a week waiting vainly for the hostages to show up, and returned with the cash. Although Perot was out $300,000, he is taking his loss philosophically. Says he: "I would rather try and fail than...
...California contractor who bought the doghouse for $4,500, and then donated it back to PTL so it could be resold for $600, this time to a Pennsylvania railroad worker. Other notable transactions: $27,000 for a restored 1927 Franklin automobile, $10,500 for a 25-ft. boat. So mountainous is the miscellany that a second auction will be held on July...
...lack of trying. The probe dates back to 1979, when a federal grand jury began hearings into allegations of rip-offs in the $1.8 billion contract for subs by General Dynamics and its Electric Boat division. After two years the jury disbanded. In 1984 investigations revived when P. Takis Veliotis, the boat division's former general manager, who had fled to Greece to avoid prosecution for an unrelated kickback scheme, said he had tape-recorded conversations with Chairman Lewis and Vice President Gorden MacDonald, both since retired. The tapes purportedly showed an agreement to provide false data to the Government...