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...only U.S. battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into "Windy Gulch," between Guadalcanal and Savo, and helped win the great night battle of Guadalcanal by sinking four Japanese warships by gunfire...
...foot on the pedal." Even baseball contributed two terms: the "Merkle ball" which slides straight down with only one more bumper to light, and the "Owen ball" which the pinster cannot control. A "New man ball," on the other hand, is one that shoots arrowlike to "Harry's gulch," the demoniacal corner which traps the ball and sends it to the bottom without hitting any bumper. "Bound hands" is the general expression of futility when a skilled pinster really cares but remains unlucky. But skill or luck, Harry's Club has always been one place, however near the Advocate, which...
...harpooning in just the way it argued could never be done. The evasive town had dodged shots by some expert marksmen-Novelists Aldous Huxley, John O'Hara, Nathanael West. But each seemed only to snag a loose end: the writer's world, the cowboys of Gower Gulch, the comedy of studio pomposity, the empty splendor of its rich...
...Main Street does run "along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch" (down which has poured millions in gold). What of it? Main streets must run somewhere. It may be a bit winding; but doesn't Boston have a street or streets said to have been laid out by a trail-blazing...
...miles there are abandoned mines, a school for the feeble-minded and one town with 760 souls, one with 250, one with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make the biggest political rally in Montana's history. ("That is the greatest...