Word: steamboated
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...contrast, Twain's letters show a simmering distaste for politicians and a maturing affection for the family he left behind. When his younger brother Henry is fatally wounded in a steamboat explosion, the youthful Clemens rushes to his side. He "prayed as never man prayed before," he writes his sister, "that the great God . . . would pour out the fulness of his just wrath upon my wicked head, but have mercy, mercy, mercy upon that unoffending...
...Delta Queen came to Red Wing the first night out from St. Paul; no stop was scheduled, but a hopeful crowd, some of them sporting handmade posters, had gathered at a nearby lock. When Grechko saw them, he couldn't resist their enthusiasm. As the paddle-wheel steamboat rested in the lock, he climbed across from a starboard deck onto the concrete bank and began shaking hands, accepting pats on the back and handing out small mementos from the Soviet Union, mostly pins and buttons that called for universal peace and an end to the arms race, mostly in Russian...
Inside the steamboat's Aft Cabin Lounge, an American peace cruiser spoke to Grechko in a loud voice, enunciating with that exaggerated care that is used to breach the language gap. "I couldn't go on the Volga Peace Cruises because I'm afraid to fly," she said slowly, referring to the seven such voyages down the U.S.S.R.'s Volga River, which first began in 1982. "So I took a train to get to this one." Smiling, Grechko paused for a moment to look away from the woman, as though he did not understand her. "I know," he said finally...
...naturally). After the hike, instructors produce jugs of water, paper cups, sliced oranges and, finally, wet washcloths to wipe sticky fingers. As a refresher after bathhouse treatments, guests find cellophane-packaged blue toothbrushes--toothpaste already applied. Many find the week-long stay a real mind emptier. Returning home to Steamboat Springs, Colo., says Noel Hefty, 38, "I got off the plane, got in my car and couldn't remember how to drive...
...Iacocca's pleading is not what caused me to make a contribution to the rebuilding of the Statue of Liberty. It was remembering that cold February day in 1923 when my steamboat entered New York Harbor and I bounded up on deck to get a good look at the old girl as she greeted...