Word: boated
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Over the break’s first weekend, the Crimson performed impressively. The co-eds took third at the competion for the Owen Trophy at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. The A boat of freshman Vince Porter and senior Michelle Yu finished tied for second with Hobart, but won the tie-break to clinch the top spot...
...captain of the U.S. marathon team in the 1936 Olympics and a special friend of Jesse Owens'. On the boat going to Germany, Jesse said to me, "I want to go up to the deck and exercise, but I don't have any shoes." So I said, "I don't think my shoes will fit you." But that didn't stop him. He tried to get a shoe on, but his foot was so large, it broke my shoe right in half. He apologized, and I got it sewed up. It cost me 50, and I got a souvenir...
...international airport, destroying three Airbuses and killing seven soldiers. But for more than a year now, the land that Marco Polo called "the finest island of its size in all the world" has been at peace, and optimism seems well placed despite the government's sinking of a rebel boat last week. Tourist arrivals at the island, where English is widely spoken, reached 393,000 last year, approaching levels not seen since the civil war broke out in 1983. Some visitors are finding the country's combination of golden beaches, temperate hill country, Buddhist temples and graceful residences so charming...
...South China Sea. Instead of hawking trinkets on the beach, the town's children are commercial fishermen, too, venturing out to sea in thung chai, two-meter-wide circular baskets made of bamboo and pitch that can only be paddled standing up. Old superstitions linger: before a new boat makes its maiden voyage, families paint eyes on its bow. If left unpainted and hence blind, they believe, their vessel will never find fish...
...good boatspeed, some good starts, and we were able to get our heads out of the boat enough to look upwind for puffs and shifts so that we were able to put together some solid races,” Everett said...