Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Read Su Tung-po poem New Year's Eve: Spending the Night Outside Chang-chou City (1073). "No one here speaks my dialect: I long for home... I thank the flickering torch that doesn't refuse/ to keep me company on a lonely boat through the night...
Radcliffe head coach Liz O'Leary could not be reached for comment. She was out on the river racing in the Championship Eight race against her own Radcliffe rowers. O'Leary placed 20th in a boat comprised of the members of the 1980 women's Olympic team...
...spent his time in the shop working on his grandmother's busted boat engine. But the grief was taking a toll. After a few months, Joe started to miss school regularly, and he fell far behind in his classes. A top player on Webster's red-hot hockey team, he started fighting with his teammates. He was absent so many times he didn't get the 2.5 credits he needed to be eligible to play hockey this year...
...disliked the nickname "the Stilt," but he embraced the name "Dipper," which became "Big Dipper." He called his boat and his house Ursa Major. "It has a certain beauty and power and grace and majesty," he wrote. "And it represents something real, enduring, eternal. It's not just a nursery-rhyme reference to my height or some inanimate object." He added, "It's bigger than life itself," not indicating how hard that was to bear...
...lower tax revenues. In short supply anywhere in town are land parcels given over to commercial or industrial taxpayers--testament to Webster's determination to preserve its residential character, and a big reason why property-tax revenue is relatively low and taxes are relatively high. "We missed the boat in the '50s and '60s, when we had a chance to annex some adjoining communities and develop them commercially," says Brian McLain, who runs a Webster real estate agency...