Word: sailboating
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...Yujiro, the son of a wealthy businessman who died in 1950, actually started his film career as a sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred beer...
...shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold him in his sights. The sidekick tries to blow him up along with a small sailboat-Jerry is snagged in the behind by a fishhook and yanked overboard three seconds before the boat explodes...
...middle of a sun-scorched desert, in thirsty earth so deep-down dry that it could soak up Niagara Falls, the blue waters of a sailboat-dotted lake ripple and lap at the parched shore. A mirage? No-the product of a burgeoning new business: lakemaking...
...childhood loner. "I kept pigeons and spent nearly all my free time sailing and fiddling with my boat by myself." In his junior year at Harvard, Lodge married pert Nancy Kunhardt, hauled her off on a month-long honeymoon cruise up the Maine coast to Canada in an open sailboat. When a hurricane whirled by, they anchored in the lee of a desolate island and ate clams for three days...
Washington's Episcopal-run Beauvoir El ementary School incorporates a dose of natural theology in its kindergarten prayer : Great grey elephant, little yellow bee; Tiny purple violet, big tall tree; Red and white sailboat on a blue...