Word: furling
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...Furl: to thwart in Brooklyn...
When I dipt into the future far as hu- man eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. . . . Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federa- tion of the World...
...Experimenter, a craft in which house carpenters as well as boat builders had collaborated. Her four keels were laid on the principle of a catamaran. On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...
...watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange little chaps who on this day not only wear their top hats but are allowed to don colored waistcoats and wear flowers in their lapels, to furl their umbrellas as only the members of "Pop" (the exclusive Eton Society) may ordinarily do. But the sophisticated observer last week noticed that there were fewer students about than ever before. Every young Etonian who can, nowadays flees Eton for the Fourth...
...moppets most of whose fathers had died fighting in the Schutzbund (Socialist storm troops). By twos and threes the children have escaped to Czechoslovakia where Soviet agents put them on the special train last week. As the train chuffed across Poland the refugees were compelled by Polish soldiers to furl their red flags, but once in Russia they wiggled them from every window. Said a Soviet spokesman, "These children will be sent first to vacation camps and then to schools as proteges of the Soviet Union...