Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear them arguing at night. All Spaniards argue after work." "We're not Italian," Mario Scaduto was saying. "We're American. We've got this huge house in Silver Springs, Maryland." But Mario's accent, and its nervous urgent tweet, was English. "We went to Trinidad on a yacht my father chartered," the mouse-faced boy called Littlefair was explaining...
After the marriage Vincent hopes to study medicine "Eventually, I plan to be a rich doctor with a yacht in the backyard." Anna say that he also wants to own a condo in the Florida Keys. She plans to study neurobiology...
...notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink-sugar blond he calls Snowdrop, come into this mostly Hispanic neighborhood every Sunday to buy cocaine ("Big C") and heroin ("Big D," for dope). They like to shoot up with a mixture of the two, a sometimes deadly combination known as speedball...
...even a tornado that were catastrophic for some residents but merely inconvenient for the Queen. There was an umbrella almost perpetually over Her Majesty's head. Split-second schedules, worked out over the past nine months, had to be adjusted and at the last minute readjusted, the royal yacht Britannia 's midweek sailing plans scrubbed in deference to 16-ft. seas, four floors of a hotel suddenly commandeered. At a dinner in her honor in San Francisco, the Queen made light of the drenching conditions. "I knew before we came that we have exported many of our traditions...
...Queen, according to one biographer, "is a poor sailor," easily made queasy. Even so, the royals had intended to spend most of their time on board her yacht Britannia, the world's largest (412 ft. long), best staffed (a crew of 254) and most expensive (more than $5 million a year to maintain). But even in the balmy Mexican Pacific, the Queen fretted about the rough California seas ahead. The gray, foreboding skies settled in just before Britannia slid up to San Diego's Broadway Pier a week ago last Saturday...