Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enchanted voyage began. A fuel line broke and the Pasado took a whole day to clear San Pedro. Just past the breakwater, the engine coughed and quit; it took another hour to fix it. The old tub pitched with a horrible intensity and all the passengers were sick long before she got under way again. Soon the toilets backed up and floated the luggage. The second day out the lone shower was turned off-there was a water shortage-and nobody had a bath for the rest of the voyage. Nobody, for that matter, bothered to take off his clothing...
...figure that the average barrel costs a little over $12, it's easy to calculate the profit on a keg. If the elbow bender is to gain on a nickel beer, it has to hold at least five ounces. At that price, it's impossible for any bartender to clear operating costs, much less make an additional profit...
Captain Bill Rickenbacker and Hugh Nawn were the Crimson's only winners, although Dick O'Keefe dropped a close game on the nineteenth hole. The match was played in clear, windy weather...
Said solemn Charles Ewaskio, 31, assistant professor of physics and a Catholic for slightly more than two years: "There's no doubt that [Methodist Bishop] G. Bromley Oxnam is right about us ... It has been made very clear that unbaptized babies don't go to heaven...
...small Negro college and the white editor of a small liberal newspaper. Each thinks he is working for equality, but Editor Cal Thornton is on the board that approves President Ezekiel Rogers' annual budget. To the shame of both of them, the time comes when Editor Thornton makes clear that he and he alone is boss...