Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Believe me, my young friend, [said the Water Rat solemnly], there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing . . . Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular...
...steering wheel and gear shift, a modern outboard runabout can give any frustrated householder a heady sense of power for as little as $1,500. Today, some 5,000,000 Americans own outboards v. 1,300,000 in 1947. Last year Outboard Marine, a combine that makes well over half of all outboard motors in the U.S. through its Johnson. Evinrude and Gale divisions, produced $131 million in outboards. Chris-Craft's Harsen Smith does not consider the outboards a threat. Outboards. he feels, are to inboard boats as farm teams are to baseball's major-league teams...
Wind v. Gas. Such frivolities are often viewed with mixed feelings by the half a million or so sailboaters in the U.S., who pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...
...salt in their bones and the water in their blood tell them all they need to know: that whether they arrive at their destination or reach somewhere else, or whether they never get anywhere at all, there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing...
...high for a Picasso by knocking down his pretty nude, entitled La Belle Hollandaise, to the Queensland Art Gallery of Brisbane, Australia for $154,000. Back in 1905, Picasso painted the picture on a trip to Holland, apparently gave it to a traveling companion in payment for his half of a hotel bill...