Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Times discusses the negotiations for the Harvard-Yale race: "The method by which the annual Harvard-Yale boat-race is arranged is peculiarly clumsy and fraught with the utmost peril. About six months before the usual time of the race one of the colleges - say Yale, for example - proposes that a race shall be rowed, and thereupon each college confides the ensuing diplomatic correspondence to a committee. The Yale committee writes a formal letter offering to row under certain conditions, which will give the Yale crew every advantage. Thus, Yale will demand that if her crew arrives...
...Thus fraught with love and grief...
...years, so fraught with stirring changes...
...Galleons fraught with golden lading...