Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Regatta rules stipulate, each team must present at least one boat in which both the skipper and the crew positions are manned by females, and among co-ed boats, at least one boat must be skippered by a female...
Most of the illegals have forked over as much as $48,000 each to gangsters in order to get to America. They are part of a wave from China's coastal Fujian province; no one knows what their real numbers are. Every now and then a boat stuffed with human cargo will wash up on a beachfront community. But many other landings go undetected. Police estimate there are 300 gang-run safe houses where illegals live as they prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province...
...mother had recently died. Strawberry, the recovering troublemaker, was hospitalized with colon cancer in the middle of the play-offs. So everybody stitched his number on their hats, even ex-teammate Jim Leyritz, who played on the opposing Padres. Hernandez pitched his first American season after paddling on a boat to escape from Cuba. His family was permitted to leave Havana for a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Even Fidel Castro is a softy for this team...
...begin to appreciate what it is about this grueling discipline that leads women and men to dedicate their lives (social and academic) to doing something as maddeningly simple as moving a boat fast. We begin to understand--barely--what motivates some of our peers to subject themselves to three or four hours a day of training starting in September for a sport that culminates in a national championship lasting a mere six minutes...
...only about being the first to the line, but also about the very struggle of getting there--and engaging in that battle over self-will head-on. Almost as impressive as the world championship crew that flattens its opposition with finesse and power is the staggering novice boat, decidedly lacking in either trait, that perseveres with no prize...