Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd skipper, who made up in ingenuity what his boat lacked in speed, would order his excellent band to play loudly when a rival drew alongside. All the passengers on the other boat would rush to the near side to listen, heeling their own vessel over until its other paddle wheel flailed helplessly half out of water...
...ships disappeared from the river. Only the Day Line, "the Albany night boat," and a few others lingered on. The day boats maintained an air of spinsterish respectability. The night boat took on a raffish tilt. It became the favorite vehicle of newlyweds and not-yet-weds, of petty coggers and straw-hatted drummers. Later, vacationists bound for the Adirondacks still patronized it, grateful that they could stow their cars in its hold and their young in its berths...
...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...
...North Station, a tidal wave of people ran down the platform and surged over the train, filling it up within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously overloaded, crewmen turned fire hoses on the masses still scrambling to climb aboard...
Last spring, 34-year-old Bob Campbell set out to rediscover the old strike. He formed a syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly...