Word: rowboat
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...girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have a baby, he is provoked to kill her?by taking her on a picnic, tipping over their rowboat, swimming to shore while she drowns...
...Michael Hamelburg, 46, father of five, radio dealer, enthusiastic reader of Robinson Crusoe, disappeared from his home. Last week detectives found him on a desert island near Long Beach feeding crumbs to two wild ducks. "All I want," said he, "is to be let alone and to have a rowboat...
...traveling salesmen from Cincinnati hired a rowboat and pulled out to fish in Lake Erie off Sandusky, Ohio last week. Suddenly a huge, heavy coil, grey on top and white underneath, broke water beside their craft; a yellow, black-crowned head six inches across the forehead, rose up and cold glittering eyes stared at them unblinkingly...
...traveling salesmen, Frank Bagenstose and Clifford Wilson, thought their time had come. But Salesman Wilson unshipped an oar, struck out forcibly with it, stunned the apparition. Growing bolder, he and his companion fished down in the water, brought up 18 ft. of fat snake. They wadded it into the rowboat, took it to shore, crated it, locked it in their automobile. As soon as it was crated, it revived. Crowds numbering thousands filed past the motorcar...
...rowboat renting float went next, slipped under the bridge successfully, then swung inshore again, ripped loose two big bathing barges and another rowboat float. Out in midstream again went the floating mass of derelicts, slowly spinning round and round. With a crash it broke against the Ernest Walz Bridge, but the Ernest Walz stood firm. Spectators cheered hilariously as the bathhouses went down with towels flying...