Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome effects of the March 1 thermonuclear explosion (TIME, March 22) continued to reverberate around the world. By last week the big blast had touched off an investigation in Washington, spread panic through Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations. The latest bad news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing...
Though the medley relay team boat Yale for the first time this season, as well as Stanford, the varsity couldn't edge the Elis out of third place when it came to total points. Yale didn't win a single event, but it captured enough scoring positions, especially in diving, to place above the varsity...
...time and direction of this year's Harvard-Yale boat race have been changed, it was announced yesterday. The event will be rowed upstream instead of downstream, and will start an hour earlier than was previously planned...
Since the meet determines only individual championships, the Crimson cannot beat anybody. But the relative success of members of the team will probably prove what everyone already has guessed that the varsity is the second boat team in the East...
...always mixed up with the theater. After graduation from drama school (with a first prize), he joined the famed Comedie-null soon left the formal atmosphere to become, at 26, Paris' youngest theatrical director. Stressing dazzle in his productions, he brought Paris such musical shows as Show Boat, New Moon and, lately, Annie du Far-West...