Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haven tradition where both crews attempt to paint a certain rock at the starting line with their respective school colors, coaches Peter Huntsman and John Baker teamed up with coxswains Nancy Hadley and Amy Sacks to paint a large black square with a white Radcliffe "R" on the Eli dock, the official's boat, a starting-line rock, and a TV tower midway through the course. This occurred at midnight on Friday. The Bulldogs refused to be outdone, though, and repainted them all by noon Saturday...
Yale managed to put a "#2" after the "R" on the tower just prior to the race; when the Elis left the dock on their painting expedition, Huntsman slyly repainted the official's boat with a black "R", By racetime (8 p.m.), the rock and the boat were still black. Moreover, the Radcliffe colors still showed through the hastily-covered blue and white dock...
...heat-seeking missiles, and we were prepared to be shot out of the sky. As I turned around to see who was aboard, Buu Vien, the South Vietnamese Interior Minister, smiled and gave a thumbs-up signal. Forty minutes later we were aboard the U.S.S. Denver, a landing-platform dock, and safe...
...lives in an extraordinary situation." That may indeed be true. But if for any reason Soyuz does not make it into orbit, NASA will not be entirely unprepared. The space agency has quietly planned an alternative flight in which the U.S. team would try to rendezvous and dock with the abandoned Skylab space station, which is still circling the earth...
...picture with my fish," insisted Actor Paul Newman, 50, after hanging upside down from a hook in Islamorada, Fla. Newman, on a weekend vacation with Daughter Nell, 15, had landed a 273-lb. hammerhead shark from the Gulf Stream waters off Florida's southern coast. Back on the dock, he decided to try a variation of the traditional angler's photograph with his trophy. Then, his hang-ups resolved, Newman announced that he planned to mount the shark's head "and send it to my dentist...