Word: boatloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there or not, is entitled to a share of land, the Navy found itself returning a boatload of 275 Rongelapese to the atoll in place of the 82 it originally carried...
...indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...
...themselves Palestine's senior partner. Their young men had served bravely with the British and won Britain's obligation and sympathy. When Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin then tried to hold them down, they went right ahead bringing in homeless refugees from Hitler's Europe by the boatload. They fought and made their own state. The very day they proclaimed its independence, President Truman recognized Israel. The next day five Arab armies invaded the new republic. Israel hurled them back...
James Russell Lowell to England and Hawthorne as consul in Liverpool. The Robber Barons, who were the modern Medici, imported European treasures by the boatload, but Henry Adams found America "mortgaged to the railways." Henry James fled to Europe, and in 1913 Ezra Pound gloomily wrote of America's artists: "O helpless few in my country, 0 remnant enslaved...
...others for a second Olympic try. the 1952 winners are well aware of the difficulties ahead. Soft life in wardrooms, officers' clubs and pilots' seats larded them lightly with unnecessary ballast before orders brought them back to Annapolis. Of the 18 officer oarsmen (a second-string boatload also got orders to crew duty), nine had married, and five were already fathers: the old days of monastic concentration on the job at hand were gone for good. Hands had gone soft. Even after bathing them in alcohol and alum, some of the crewmen could not be sure their palms...