Word: boated
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...Baton Rouge Takes a Battering After spending a week without electricity and access to news, I was happy to see an article on Hurricane Gustav [Sept. 15]. Yet after reading it, I was sorry to see that TIME missed the boat. Nearly the entire two pages were about the city of New Orleans. New Orleans got lucky with Gustav. Baton Rouge, the state capital, is facing the worst electrical damage in its recorded history and isn't even mentioned. Ninety percent of the city was without power after Gustav hit. Thousands of homes were lost or suffered significant damage...
...woman's spoofy fantasies of a perfect domestic life turn into the chilling symptoms of her descent into madness in Woman in Mind. A charming, well-intentioned "golden couple" manage inadvertently to destroy the lives of nearly everyone they come in contact with in Joking Apart. A holiday boat excursion for two landlubberly married couples turns into a fascist parable in Way Upstream...
...public schools I attended growing up in the United States, the conception of slavery drilled into us was something that began on a boat and ended on a plantation in the American South. Before starting my own studies of slavery at Harvard and in Ghana this summer, my conception of enslavement was inadequate in its absence of a sense of historical continuity and rootedness...
...relatively windless conditions, only five races were sailed in each division throughout the weekend’s competition.“With only five races, it’s hard to get a very accurate reading on where people really stand,” Garrity said. The A-division boat of sophomore skipper Alan Palmer and senior crew Lauren Brants placed twelfth overall in their division, but their weekend was marked by steady improvement. After a disappointing 19th-place finish in the initial race, Palmer and Brants inched up in the standings, recording a weekend-best sixth in the final...
...launch of a new fishing vessel would have drawn hundreds of locals in their Sunday best to the quayside, the big draws at this year's Seafest were not fishing vessels but Viking warrior re-enactments, candy stores, carnival rides and a palmist called Amalia Lavengra. The largest boat in the harbor was not some weathered trawler, but the Donara II, a 34-foot yacht owned by Andy Stewart, Commodore of the Arbroath Sailing and Boating Club. "It's mixed emotions," says Alex Smith, a former Arbroath fisherman who sold his boat last year, and who offered "Pleasure Cruises with...