Word: boated
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...second set, the fiercely grinning Jones called for some ostensible crowd pleasers which did not add artistically to the first set's fine performances. One exception was the tune "Don't Rock the Jazz Boat," a staple of Jones's groups through the years. While Latin beats adapted to the jazz context often come across as trite and excessively happy, Jones metamorphosed the bossa nova of this chart into a menacing Amazonian thunderstorm. Distant rumblings on the toms grew louder and louder during Jones's solo, and as the storm came crashing down, lightning forked through the cymbals and snare...
...Council,some also felt that women were not respected andgiven a full role at the table...it's very hardand frustrating for women because the Council hasalways traditionally been male-dominated. Theydon't want to go at it alone, but there need to beenough women on the boat to rock the glassceiling...
...there is supposedly no more dry land," he says. "That means we have to shoot every scene one way-out to sea-so you don't see any land. Then we have to rotate the set to shoot the reverse angle. So now we're shooting, and suddenly a boat sails by, and the take isn't good. Then we had three hurricanes come especially close to our island, and a tsunami warning, where we had to abandon...
...realize he was part of espionage's wave of the future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep him out of jail...
Currents were so strong in parts of the city that outboard motors strained uselessly--an oddly fitting trial for the birthplace of Arthur Rimbaud, one of whose most famous poems was Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat). In the calmer Charleville streets of Rimbaud's boyhood district, swans cruised nonchalantly like grand seigneurs inspecting their expanded watery estates. Downstream in Belgium, the Meuse overpowered a number of evacuation efforts in the town of Dinant. Householder Tony Delussu was exasperated after two floods. ``I'd just finished putting new wallpaper in my living room,'' he explained. ``I won't stay around...