Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy policy calls for rescuing anyone at sea whose boat is adrift or in danger of sinking. Thus the service is investigating reports from among 52 survivors of a boatload of 110 Vietnamese refugees who were given food and water but not taken on board by crewmen of the amphibious U.S. transport ship Dubuque in the South China Sea on June 9. The refugees claim that their 35-ft. wooden boat was disabled at the time and that many were near starvation...
...Gustilo: Junior Tara Gustilo, that is. She has had a boatload of steals this season. When she shoots, she rises out of the water, getting tremendous leverage. Gustilo hurled the ball through the goal at MIT last week. It was last seen headed towards Toledo...
...front of Jerusalem's Western Wall shortly after the Old City was captured by Israeli troops in 1967. Rubinger has kept up with the trio; one is a gynecologist, another manages a folk-dance troupe and the third is a farmer. One of his most affecting shots depicts a boatload of exhilarated Moroccan Jews catching sight of Israel for the first time. "Photographs, like wine, improve with age," says Rubinger. "My favorites are the ones taken years ago that show human beings, having survived horrors, being remade into new men and women." Rubinger has taken some of his least favorite...
NATION: The U. S. blasts a boatload of Iranian minelayers in the gulf...
Despite his massive campaign machine and a boatload of endorsements. Walter Mondale has never been a particularly strong candidate. His career has been that of a dutiful, party, oriented politician who has moved patiently up the ladder. He is an organization man, the kind of politician who used to run for President back when the Chief Executive's most important job was administering federal patronage. In those days, the parties themselves placed the key role in turning out the vote, and the candidate's own personal its often became secondary...