Word: fractious
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...animal has been trusted to draw a hearse in a royal funeral since a horse became fractious at Queen Victoria's funeral. Solemn lines of Navy ratings (enlisted men) in uniform blue hauled the gun carriage that bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother...
...Honolulu. At dawn one day last week, L'Apache's boom tackle broke. It had to be repaired under way, with 8-ft. seas running. Precious time was wasting. Crewman Ted Sierks, 40, an ex-Marine and photographer, was braced against the rail, trying to get the fractious boom under control. The rail broke and Sierks slid into...
Fortunately, says Historian Berrill, Columbus did not know all that modern natural historians know. He sailed on & on, believing that each dawn would light a distant rock. Each misread sign gave his fractious sailors a new shot of hope too. On their tenth day out of San Sebastian, they had more water before them than behind...
...Lusty Song, sometimes fractious, found Miller a pleasant driving companion. In the first, heat (best two-out-of-three mile-long heats wins), Miller sent Lusty Song to the lead before the halfway mark, stayed there, and won by a full-sized length from Star's Pride. The second heat, an hour later, started out like the first. Lusty Song had the lead at the quarter-mile mark, held it under Miller's pace-setting drive until the field rounded into the homestretch, a three-sixteenths-of-a-mile straightaway. Then Star's Pride made...
Bidault squeaked through, by 303 votes to 297. But no one felt like taking down the storm signals. Every one of the 50 articles in the government's budget must still be voted on separately by the fractious Assembly, which then must approve it as a whole...