Word: halyards
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...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...
...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...race of the series. Nereid II of Galveston rammed La Tortue, a French boat, causing Nereid II to be disqualified and Mrs. Judith Bailey-Balken. skipper of La Tortue, to flop into the water. Sparkler II of New Orleans lost its mast. On the Cene, of Seattle, a mainsail halyard parted and the crew repaired it just in time to reach the finish line at sundown. That a skipper in home waters has an immense advantage, any small-boat sailor knows. Nonetheless, when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series...