Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evans will start at stroke. Unable to race in the Olympic finals because of illness, Evans has been rowing as well as he ever has and should be capable of coaxing the best out of the boat...
...crew which rows the 2000 muddy meters in Providence this morning is far different from the eight which represented the United States in the Olympics. There are five new faces in the boat...
Captain Clive Livingston will row at the seven position, and although he is the lightest man in a boat averaging 194 pounds, he more than makes up for it with his strength and technique...
...attracting further tests. In the early Paris days, his infant son, Bumby (John Hemingway, first child by first wife, Hadley Richardson), cut the pupil of Daddy's right eye with his fingernail. Baker recounts how Hemingway broke a toe on a gate, tore his stomach on a boat cleat, ripped open his hand on a punching bag, and shot himself in both legs while trying to land a shark. He was particularly prone to head injury: four major concussions in one two-year stretch...
...means confronting and finally answering the question that one's particular destiny has been asking from the beginning. At the end, Townrow lives out the dream that has haunted him from the opening page. Like a saintly pilgrim, he sets off across Port Said harbor in a small boat, ferrying the coffin of the dead man whose estate he came to plunder, and then moves out to sea in search of an absolute emptiness in which to find himself...