Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they stumble into a Communist ambush. The squad's survivors disperse into the tall grass. After a dangerous trek, into the mountains lying inland, Shih is picked up by the anti-Communist peasant underground and passed along to the coast. Shih's friends cannot get him a boat, but they find him a log. One chill autumn night, an offshore wind blowing and the tide ebbing, Shih drifts with his log back toward Matsu and the territory of Free China...
...kind of terrain at a speed of 15 m.p.h. The engine cab contains insulated sleeping quarters for four men. To get the giant from Texas to Alaska, Le Tourneau had to ship it on specially built flatcars to Seattle, from there Alaskan Freight will move it to Alaska by boat...
Convertible Boat. A steel, all-purpose boat that looks like a shallow square box on pontoons has been developed by Trail-Craft Corp. of Clarksburg, W. Va. Designed for use with an outboard motor, the boat weighs 230 lbs., can carry 750 Ibs. as a trailer, and also converts into a tent for four, a duck blind, a wading pool, a swimming raft. Price (including tent top and four cots...
Another man might have kept his shame to himself. Not Gaston. He not only told his wife and family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace...
...supper by singing an idiotic little tune, winning the crowd's favor by catching pennies, and more than a few buttons, in his mouth. A mean-spoken cynic promptly accuses the cripple of shamming, and after a vain, mumbling plea for "confidence," Black Guinea slinks off the boat at the next landing. Black Guinea is the first of many disguises assumed by the confidence-man and the clue to Melville's bitter moral. He mulcts the fools who believe in him, but can only be exposed by knaves who have no jot of faith...