Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoons to sports. The Prince hunts partridge, golfs, swims and water-skis ("I prefer one ski to two"). He holds a black belt in karate, a distinction he shares with his brother-in-law, former King Constantine of Greece. Juan Carlos was a member of the Dragon-class crew that sailed for Spain in the 1972 Olympics...
...moments later, he realized that she was more than drunk. "I just looked at her and I realized she wasn't breathing," he remembers. While he attempted to revive her with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, another friend called an ambulance. But even though French and the emergency crew that rushed her to the hospital were able to get Karen breathing again, she never regained consciousness...
...weapons about. They gnawed at apples and oranges but balked at drinking Kool-Aid until Miller downed some to show that it was not poison. Nevertheless, the men on the Mayaguez feared that they might be beheaded or shot-or, at a minimum, held hostage for years like the crew of the Pueblo, captured by the North Koreans. The greatest immediate danger came from American airmen who were bombing and strafing Cambodian gunboats in an effort to prevent the crew from being taken to the mainland. Unfortunately, the crew had been transferred to one of those boats. Some were wounded...
Back in Washington, President Ford was determined to take firm enough action to save the crew and to discourage similar captures. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was anxious to prove, after the Saigon evacuation, that the U.S. had not lost its will to fight. Thus the White House ordered the Marines to recover the Mayaguez and attack Koh Tang, one of the islands in the area. Sterner measures were rejected...
While tweeds and topsiders, lime green weaters and vibrant pink turtlenecks cruised the banks and bridges of the Charles shouting encouraging crew wittisms to the bypassing rowers, "Row rapidly Radcliffe" the coxswains and oarsmen seemingly inspired by their driving counterparts of Mem Drive put on a bumperboat steering display which would make the most seafaring gent swear off the waters for life...