Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such words are small reassurance to dedicated Unionists like Billy Hull, chairman of the Loyalist Association of Workers (L.A.W.). Hull worries that Ulster may be abandoned by "perfidious Albion" and that Protestants may share the fate of those prewar "Czechoslovaks who woke up one morning and found themselves Germans." Says Hull: "If we're sold down the drain, there wouldn't be civil war. There would be armed rebellion against the government of Britain...
Last weekend, 40,000 outboard enthusiasts descended on Havasu to see the world's best drivers vie for a record $62,750 in prizes. Part race, part promotion and part proving ground for the latest refinements in hull and engine design, the eighth annual championship drew factory teams as formidable as those massed for the Indianapolis 500. Packing one, two and even three high-powered engines, the boats carried the brand names of Mercury (60 entries), Evinrude (17), Johnson (13) and Chrysler (8). With manufacturers investing millions a year in dozens of races, data on key factors like horsepower...
Winner of the race was Bill Sirois, a marine supply dealer from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., whose sleek 21-ft. boat with its "tunnel" hull-an airfoil design that allows the craft to ride free of the chop on a cushion of air-was powered by twin 200 h.p. Mercury engines. He outdistanced Runner-Up Reggie Fountain Jr. by a 12-mile margin to take the $18,000 first prize. In all, Sirois all but flew more than 660 miles at the average rate of 82.5 m.p.h.-nearly 3 m.p.h. faster than the record he set as last year...
Sprayed and Spayed. Shoving off in a 10-ft. Styrofoam hull, sometimes with friends, sometimes with his wife, the mysterious "L," Jones bobs along the polluted waters that separate his fellow citizens one from the other and each from himself. The urban river, says Jones, "is the memory bank of all past bodily errors, assaulting the most carefully bathed, sprayed, spayed and pressed." To Jones' eye, despoliation, like nearly everything else in Drifting, can be delightfully ambiguous. The Lincoln Tunnel reminds him of an extended lavatory wall; there is fascination in the waverings of tin cans, tires...
...team has ever scored in a season. Ten Boston players each put in 20 or more, which is roughly equivalent to a baseball team's having ten .300 hitters. Center Phil Esposito alone netted 76, far surpassing the old record of 58 set by Chicago's Bobby Hull in 1969. Little wonder, then, that although the Bruins split the first two games of the Stanley Cup quarter-finals with the Montreal Canadiens, they were heavy favorites to repeat their 1970 cup victory...