Word: rowboats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building with a wide porch, where storekeeper Bill Ivey is preparing for a dance that night that will bring Mexicans and Americans together as informally as is possible anywhere on the border. There are no Customs and Immigration formalities here; Mexicans simply cross the river in a battered aluminum rowboat to shop, have a beer, go to church or, a couple of times a year, step out at an Ivey dance. By 9 p.m. the beat is lively, and more than 100 people, nearly half from across the river, are kicking up their heels beneath a corrugated-iron roof that...
Horner described the changing relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe as the difference between a seesaw and a rowboat. In the past, relations were like a seesaw, with one side battling the other for equality, but now, Horner said, it was more like a rowboat, with both parties pulling together...
...night. The dance ended promptly at midnight. The crowd, inspired by Deputy Sheriff Klingemann's quiet presence, downed the last of some 700 cans of beer sold during the evening and melted away peaceably. Shouting erupted upstream when the returning Mexicans found that their boatman had tied up the rowboat on the far side of the river and gone to bed. The problem was resolved when a young man rolled up his trousers and waded across to bring the boat back to the U.S. side. By 1:30 a.m. there were no human sounds at Lajitas, only the quiet gurgle...
...cold early spring of 1886 in the Dakota Badlands, and Theodore Roosevelt was angry. A man called Redhead Finnegan and a couple of other drifters had stolen his rowboat and taken off down the Little Missouri River. With two friends, Roosevelt went after the thieves...
...three right there. Some Dakotans were mystified by the course Roosevelt chose. He struggled on for ten more days, downriver and cross- country in brutal cold, standing guard through the nights, until he found a sheriff. He handed his prisoners over to the law. Much exertion over a rowboat. Much exertion, even manic bravado, in behalf of the idea of justice...