Word: motorboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont farm on Lake Champlain, Bostwick began giving Chris regular dips, towing him behind a motorboat. Chris improved enough to win two starts last year, but again pulled up lame. Last week, after many more lake workouts and a hot 1952 campaign, Chris, now a venerable ten-year-old, was back at Yonkers Raceway near New York City, a 6-to-1 shot in a renewal of the $25,000 Gotham Trot. Starting in the second tier, Chris passed such topnotch trotters as Yankee Hanover, Pronto Don and Main-liner, breezed across the finish six lengths ahead. The sea horse...
...Long of Louisiana. It was Senator Long's idea on the spur of the moment to fulfill a lifetime's ambition by swimming from Europe to Asia, and the McGhees picked it up with enthusiasm. Another Senator, Wayne Morse of Oregon, cheered the swimmers on from a motorboat. Led most of the way by the powerful Texas-born ambassador, Long took a spurt at the end and finished the half-mile first, in 27½ minutes. McGhee was a close second; Mrs. McGhee third...
...goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew away. While her pilot boat almost lost her in the fog, Florence's father took one pill after another to ease the strain on his own weak heart. Finally, after 16 hr., 22 min., he got the best tonic...
Better not look IN the river, though. It will take all the enchantment out of the evening. Whitebellied decaying catfish line the bank, bloated and poisoned by the polluted waters. The waves from a passing motorboat slop over the slimy rocks along the bank into a brown froth. It isn't pleasant...
...command post, a lieutenant barked shrilly into a telephone: "Yes, goddamit, I said motorboat mechanics! The colonel wants some motorboat mechanics and he wants 'em quickly. Scratch around and see if you can find anyone who knows anything about motorboats, and send 'em the hell up here...