Word: motorboater
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...learned to drive a motorboat, a motorcycle, trucks, a tank and a locomotive, married, fathered a son, won his commission, reached North Africa in May 1943, saw action on May 24, was hospitalized in August and September, made 21 combat jumps (the 21st on the day he left the hospital), was decorated, and wrote: "Over here in Italy it is very pretty. . . . There are many old historic places like Pompeii, etc. . . . But even with all this, I'd give anything to plant my feet on some U.S. dirt again...
Kroyt's English is strictly from Odessa. Once in Australia, a noted critic was introduced to the Quartet. Said the critic to Kroyt: "I have just met your wife." Said Kroyt: "Thank you very much." Kroyt fishes from a motorboat on the Potomac. Like the others, he sees very little of his colleagues socially. Each has his own set of friends...
...before. Imperial Oil Ltd. -Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary- had sent young Theodore Augustus Link, fresh out of the University of Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
Double Trouble. In Newport, Vt., Frank Curran could not get gas for the 14-ft. motorboat he had built, even if he could get it out of his cellar...
Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...