Word: boated
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When the Soviet ship Baltika throbbed into New York harbor one morning in September 1960, demonstrators on a chartered sightseeing boat waved placards: ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE; STALIN DROPPED DEAD. HOW ABOUT YOU? Nikita Khrushchev laughed and pointed. A few weeks later at the United Nations, a Philippine delegate gave a speech complaining about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev astonished the General Assembly by taking off his brown loafer and banging it on the table as if it were a spoon on an infant's high chair, except that in this case the banging...
...seaside veranda?are spread along a mile of beachfront; even when the beach is crowded guests have a sense of privacy. If you're tempted to simply sink into the natural surroundings, no one will blame you. If you want to plunge into them, however, take the resort's boat to the uninhabited islands nearby for some of Malaysia's best diving and snorkeling. There is also a resident naturalist, former Malaysian special-forces soldier Captain Mat, who leads jungle and beach tours and prides himself on an encyclopedic knowledge of the region's flora and fauna. And from...
...didn’t crab. We didn’t have any major catastrophes,” he added. “It was pretty clean all the way through. For a first race with five new guys in the boat it was good...
...There was ice in the boat, so I pulled it out and found that my hand was sticking through a hole in the boat,” Shaw said...
Luckily, Radcliffe coach Liz O’Leary was nearby on a launch and the rowers abandoned ship—except for sophomore Gretchen Weingarth and junior Anna McLoon, who rowed the distressed boat back to the dock...