Word: halyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's common sense is another nation's high blood pressure." But having there stumbled within grappling distance of the world problem, shy, melancholy Author White characteristically sideslips and waves his wild flag modestly from another corner of the lot: "Somebody, we thought, should seize the halyard and run up a token banner to symbolize the world community, even if it were only a pair of scanties...
...halyard of the flagpole atop Richmond's Central National Bank building was hopelessly snarled. To untangle it, bank officials last week hired an itinerant steeplejack named Lawrence Lawson, who was living at the Salvation Army shelter. Steeplejack Lawson...
Photographers rushed up to get the picture (see cut). Then, while thousands watched from adjacent buildings and from below, two Richmond steeplejacks went up with a block & tackle, fastened a rope to the dangling man. They lowered Steeplejack Lawson to the roof. The halyard remained twisted. It could stay that way, for all Steeplejack Lawson cared...
...Agwiworld radioed a warning to the Navy, then ran for cover. The sub fired eight shots from a deck gun, one severing a halyard and the rest whistling overhead, before giving up the chase. Said Captain F. B. Goncalves, safe in port: "If we had only had a gun. ... It was a beautiful target for us." More than the raid on Pearl Harbor, the attacks on the tankers brought to many an unimaginative citizen realization that the U.S. was at war. That war was more tangible than it seemed even on the afternoon...