Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next spring, General Clay hoped, the new plan-and Bizonia's production-would be rolling. An important anchor had been planted for the future stability of the European Recovery Program...
...sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
...England rather than with Napoleonic France, had no confidence in Jefferson's motives or in his economics. A hundred vessels lay in the harbor, while the crews lived on charity, the shipyards grew idle, the ropemakers and sailmakers went out of business, the stores closed, the blockmakers, pumpmakers, anchor smiths and chainmakers were out of work, the farmers could no longer bring their produce to town, the masts and spars and oak planks no longer came in from the forests. Phillips estimates that during the year it lasted, the embargo cost the country $80,000,000. If Jefferson thought...
...Norris, national long-distance champ, and Jerry Gorman, his erstwhile running mate, went separate ways last night and thereby managed to increase their effectiveness. Norris, as expected, won the 220- and 440- yard freestyle events, while Gorman copped the 100 free and swam the anchor leg in the 300-yard medley relay...
...curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic eye had seen the water...