Word: boatmen
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...time when most boatmen have thrown away their snow shovels and hibernated, headed for a warm bar, or returned to work, the varsity sailing team has scheduled one, last, never-say-die regatta...
...switch with bewildering speed from bully to ham. "Communism is my elixir of life," he bragged. "All I want is to live long enough to see the Red flag flying all over the world." At one point, riding through the Alps by cable car, he burst into the Volga Boatmen's song, insisted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko join in. While his wife Nina stayed humbly to the rear, he flirted with his attractive blonde Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, 50. They joined in frequent private giggles, and occasionally she straightened his tie. But the pace began to tell...
...afternoon, when the white pennant rippled on the flagstaff of the Globe, signifying the performance of a play, the Thames was a bazaar of haggling, blue-coated boatmen ferrying several thousand eager customers crossriver to the prison district of the Clink, where the playhouses had retreated from puritanical city magistrates. The fops gossiped and smoked onstage. Jostling one another and munching sausages in the penny standing room of the pit were the groundlings and "stinkards," men who had unfurled canvas with Drake, but could not read or write. From next door at the Paris Garden came the snarls of mastiffs...
...Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...
...Rods & Greenhorns. The boat boom has brought really only one great menace-the hot-rodder, inboard and outboard, whose feckless abandon yearly kills and maims scores of other boatmen and bathers. New federal and state laws are now tightening requirements on registration and demanding strict adherence to traffic rules. Better still is the growing organization of Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadrons, which give free instruction in seamanship, successfully instill a sense of pride in new boat owners...