Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman Squash Team dropped its second match in the Boston Squash League to the Union Boat Club, 3 to 2, yesterday...
PLANE CHARTER will soon be as easy and inexpensive as renting a bus, truck or boat. Under a system set up by the Aircoach Transport Association, charter groups will no longer have to deal with scattered individual airlines, rarely pay expensive ferrying costs to fly empty planes back from outlying points. Instead, ACTA will act as a general agent for more than 30 nonscheduled lines, be able to pick the nearest available plane and charter it for as little as 2½? per passenger mile...
...Princess' robust instincts had made themselves known on the boat coming to England, when she spent the night alone on deck with the first mate...
...veteran performer in the capitals of middle Europe and went to visit Paderewski, who relaxed the prodigy's initial tenseness by feeding him champagne. The treatment worked so well that a visiting music critic from Boston arranged for his first tour in the U.S. On the boat going over, the charming teen-ager-of-the-world lost all his cash learning poker, but he made a big hit with the fashionable New Yorkers at the card table, soon learned his way around the big houses on Fifth Avenue...
...Norwegians in turn refused to be cowed. Aalesund authorities began court proceedings against the offending boats (usual punishment is confiscation of the catch and a stiff fine of approximately $14,000 per poaching boat). The Russians advised Oslo that it was all "a regrettable misunderstanding," said there had been no premeditated poaching, and appealed to Norway to release the 15 Soviet boats. Relieved Norwegians stopped looking for deep political motives beneath the Red herring chase. "I think it's just plain fish-nothing else," said an official...