Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phase in business life." The womenfolk while away blackouts at movies like The Lady from Cheyenne and cavort at the beach as bombs fall across the bay. In the end, Singapore is a hallucinatory panorama of burning buildings, crossed telephone lines and panicky scrambles to get aboard any departing boat. It is a rich and poignant chronicle, and Farrell has researched it down to the last palm-oil statistic. If only he had been content to write history instead of fiction. For the book is not so much imagined as documented. Plot developments, like Singapore rickshas, serve to convey...
Subsequently, the boat that called itself "Beautiful Cox," supposedly a tribute to its female coxswain, cruised through the Sprints, holding off a Navy challenge, and came away with the Cornell Trophy for the 13th year...
This was a boat that had faced the pressure of a winning tradition each time it hit the water. But it hurdled the obstacles...
...This was a boat that had a lot of problems to begin with," Dixon says. "Aside from the technical questions, there were questions of just personal chemistry within the boat...
Peter Raymond's mixture, it turned out, worked perfectly. And as for the pressure--well, every Harvard crew bears the weight of a great Harvard tradition. But Cooley may have best captured the spirit that motivated at least this J.V. boat to win, when he said, "I personally didn't feel the pressure, probably because I didn't think we were going to lose...