Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next afternoon while we all sat on a booze cruise sampling rum soda, none of us could figure out what had happened to Caroline the night before, but we felt sure she had declined Tony's offer to live on his yacht (sailing to Colombia) for the next three months. Suffice it to say that she was seen wearing a silk nightclub jacket for the next three days...
...controlled. They are charged with ille gally borrowing more than $7 million to finance an Alabama mining company in which Butcher owned a 75% interest. Butcher and his associate are also accused of using forgery and fictitious names to borrow $7.9 million for, among other things, a $400,000 yacht for Butcher. After his court appearance, the onetime Democratic candidate for Governor of Tennessee and organizer of the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair asserted, "I am innocent." If convicted, Butcher faces fines of $225,000 and up to 220 years in prison...
Star Quest took more than three years to complete. In one elaborate sting, an FBI agent entertained hoodlums on a luxury yacht while posing as a high-rolling fence seeking to buy stolen goods. In addition, more than two dozen victims of extortion were induced to cooperate. Attorney General William French Smith announced "the decimation of organized-crime leadership" in the nation. That assessment may have been grandiose, but the arrests did mean that pressure on the Mafia was continuing in both the U.S. and Italy. Last week Italian police arrested 54 organized-crime members, bringing the total detained there...
...flamboyant Rubbia, born in Gorizia, Italy, is certain to enjoy his half of the approximately $195,000 prize. He owns a yacht and has a hearty appetite, particularly for Italian food. He is impatient with lesser minds than his and is intellectually restless: his current projects range from tracking down the magnetic monopole, another elusive particle, to searching for antimatter...
Over the years, changes in the column have occurred. There has been a significant drop in the coverage of blue-blooded polo players and yacht skippers; such new categories as arrests, court cases and resignations have been added. The column's length, however, has remained about the same, as have the extreme compression of the form and the sometimes ingenious portmanteau descriptives. Dinah Shore was once referred to as a "scorch singer," Silent Film Comic Harry Langdon as a "deadpantomimer," and Mickey Rooney as a "Hardy family perennial." No longer in use are the TIME-coined neologisms that once...