Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam five days earlier, the boats had been raided and robbed three times by Thai pirates. Now, as the Malaysian navy pulled them back to sea, the refugees were in a panic. "We don't know what they intend to do with us," one shouted to a boatload of journalists near by. "We don't know our destination...
...refugees who landed in Hong Kong reported that they were the only survivors of a boatload of 200. Two who reached Japan late last year said that 139 of their companions had perished. On another vessel, broken down at sea, half a dozen people died before a passing British freighter picked up 295 dehydrated survivors last month and took them to Taiwan. The ship has been tied up in Taiwan's Kaohsiung harbor ever since while the authorities try to make arrangements for Britain to resettle the refugees. Since they have no political power, either in their own country...
...whole boatload of American suck'n'roll vanity and self-deprecation. "I'm a actress working as an ad receptionist." "I'm a poet working as a public relations man." Everybody on their way to being someone else somewhere else...
...curse the bad breaks and the rotten luck all you want, but the competition doesn't get any easier. Each year there are heavies like Princeton and UMass to contend with, Providence has recruited another boatload of Irish hordes, and perennial top guns such as Kurt Alitz of Army and the Flora brothers combine to make life exciting, if also often miserable, for the Crimson...
...severest floods in memory, voters took to boats of every kind to get to the polls. In the remote northern provinces, villagers could be seen inching across the hills on elephants to cast their ballots. Along a canal near the Burmese border, a tiger leaped into a boatload of nine voters, seriously mauling one person before fleeing into the jungle. It was later hunted down by police...