Word: boated
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...were directed towards the sun. My fingers started combing through the sand. My skin, and my friend’s, were both a bit darker. And then our conversation picked up again. We came up with summer resolutions: synchronize our schedules to maximize our dual beach exposure. Catch a boat to Catalina Island. Discover the foothills by hiking. Trade the books we were reading...
...Banana Boat Sunless Tanning Creme $10. An old-school favorite because the cream's color lets you see what you've done. But it left skin on our test leg a bit green...
...other hand, once a fishing boat picks him up and he dries off, various useful bits of information suddenly come back to him. For example, the number of a Swiss bank account that contains wads of cash, fraudulent passports and a revolver. A little later, when people start trying to kill him, his skills with karate, a wide assortment of weaponry and getting out of tight spots also return...
...counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong Li in a breezy patch of matted sorghum...
...Shanghai were not just a city, but a collection of extraordinary stories, few could match those of the desperately needy refugees who flocked to its open port. Some came by boat, some by train; a group of several hundred White Russians even completed the 3,000-kilometer journey across Xinjiang on foot. But what they all had in common was that they had nowhere else...