Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view in a Manhattan gallery were 27 oils and watercolors, all done in 1952: autumn hillsides, foaming seas and cockleshell boats, apple blossoms, circuses. As usual, he had worked with a light brush: a few lines for a fishing boat, a scattering of calligraphic squiggles to capture the rolling anger of The Written Sea. And no matter how fluid the motion, each picture had the "balance" Marin strives for. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he says. "I like my pictures to have that kind of balance...
...Morgan was once asked by a friend: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" Boomed the great J.P.: "Sir, if you have to know how much it costs, you shouldn't own one." Last week, as the 43rd annual Motor Boat Show opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, it was evident that Morgan's rule of thumb no longer applied. In the biggest show in history, 248 exhibitors displayed boats for every pocketbook-from $39.95 for a shrimp boat to $72,700 for a cabin cruiser...
...line, the merger was the latest in a series of expansions that have boosted Delta from a small, crop-dusting outfit to a seat near the top. A lifelong aviation buff, Woolman, while a student at the University of Illinois, worked his way to France on a cattle boat to a world aviation meet...
...Union Boat Club's D squad trimmed the freshman C team by the same score, 4 to 1, also at Hemenway yesterday. Martin Hechscher salvaged the only freshman...
...crater, almost from the spot where they had waded in the lava dust. It rose to a great height; then its steam condensed and fell as a scalding deluge of muddy rain. Richards and Walker escaped in a skiff, rowing madly, and took refuge on a tuna boat...