He tells me enthusiastically about a new sort of shoe by ECCO Golf (worn by Fred Couples), which looks like a boat shoe and has rubber dimples instead of spikes, allowing for regular ambling without all that clatter.

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Desperate, he inflated his children's rubber boat and paddled off down the street in search of a public telephone.

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Stones off the beach in Borth were used to smash a toughened window at the lifeboat station, showering its rubber in-shore rescue boat in glass.

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He anchored the boat on the shore and tied on a 6-inch Castaic swimbait, a big soft rubber lure that looked exactly like a trout.

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