Word: boated
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...victory cued a huge exodus to Hong Kong. Searching for work, Lily abandoned her children, telling Guilan, "Here's 50 cents. By the time you spend it I'll be back." Taking Lily's family name to throw the Communists off his trail, Charles stowed away on a boat so crowded that some people died, their corpses tossed overboard. The survivors did not find life in Hong Kong much easier. Charles recalls seeing a former Nationalist general begging door-to-door, holding a newspaper to catch donations. "He didn't even have a beggar's bowl...
...With Saturday’s light air and steady wind emphasizing boat handling, we were definitely reminded that the other teams have had a lot of practice in the past few weeks, while we’ve been cooped up not sailing on the frozen Charles River,” freshman Genny Tulloch said...
Tulloch sailed in the A boat with junior Lizz Lord, finishing sixth in their division, pulled up by two strong first-place finishes near the end. Philbrick captained the B boat, with juniors Diana Rodin and Clemmie Everett dividing the crew duties...
While the B boat did not have as many high finishes during Sunday’s races as its counterpart, both boats showed a marked improvement on the competition’s second...
...would seriously dispute any longer that a war in Iraq will begin imminently, with or without a United Nations mandate for American intervention. Those who still argue that action should only be undertaken with foreign support have missed the boat. Foreign backing for the use of force, except from ever-loyal Great Britain, is just not going to come. With implacable French and German opposition—and now the prospect of Russia also joining their antiwar alliance—multilateral intervention is no longer a possibility. Nor is the idea that the Bush administration will abandon its determination...