Word: raft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lynnwood. Her company's biggest problem, she adds, is that "one minute we're the good guys for making our studio facilities available, and the next minute we're the bad guys for refusing to take our remote equipment down the Columbia River on a raft filled with a 16-piece band...
Last summer the Rhodes clan-John Rhodes, his wife Betty, their daughter, three sons and two grandchildren -gathered to enjoy the river in a different way: they floated through the Grand Canyon on a raft...
What High School Senior Randi Lamkin, 17, did on her summer vacation comes down to a single big day. One morning last week, Randi and her friend Carol Jenks were floating off West Yarmouth, Mass., on a rubber raft. Pretty soon a wind came up and the girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said...
Today the con game is bigger, more complex and even respectable. The jet liner and the telex cable have replaced the side-wheeler and the raft. Even the suckers are more impressive, as Equity Funding stockholders and the recent star-studded list of unfortunate Home-Stake oil-drilling investors has indicated. Yet there is still no first-class novel of contemporary American business. Perhaps it is because those who know the most about the subject are satisfied to be putting their creative talents to more profitable...
...Poon Lim, a native of Hong Kong, spent 133 days on a raft in the South Atlantic after his ship was torpedoed...