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Word: steamboats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Suddenly another skier, Howard Hidle, 31, came hurtling down the hill. He barreled into Kari, the force of the collision throwing him 20 ft. into a stack of ski racks. Kari died the next day. A week after that incident, Terrence Coghlan, 38, crashed into Russell Wittman, 8, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., shattering the boy's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: Danger on the Slopes | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Serious skiiers usually pass over Vail and head for Aspen or Steamboat Springs, which are much harder to reach, but reputed to offer a greater number of really challenging slopes...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: The Slopes Are Alive | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

Before reaching Del Rio, the road wanders through Roma, a steamboat terminus in the 19th century. The sheriff is out to lunch, but his office, on a bluff overlooking the river, is unlocked and unminded. Two hundred yards upriver a trio of illegal immigrants from Mexico wade across and disappear, just three more of the estimated 1 million to 2 million people who slip across the border each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...discoveries include parts of a 200-ft. stern-wheel steamboat, a 175-ft. wooden coal barge and another 140-ft. wooden barge. These relics excite historians because no large boats of the era, nor even their construction drawings, survive. Contends Archaeologist Leslie Stewart-Abernathy, who heads the project: "When we think about the Mississippi, we've got to get beyond the image of the river gambler and think about the guys who built the boats." Without them, there would have been a lot less life on the once romantic river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mississippi: The River Gives Up Its Secrets | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bernard Shaw and Mark Twain | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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