Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then along comes the carpenter whistling something in Norwegian. He was pulling hard in the tiny dinghy. That's the workboat the sailors use when they paint the ship. It usually holds six. In the end we had twenty. . . . The men had to lie on top of each other, and we had to bail all the time...
...That first night in that cold water was ghastly. I prayed hard for the first time in years (but not out loud) and I guess some...
...South Bend, Ind., mighty Notre Dame, No. 11contender for the mythical U. S. football championship this year, had a hard time shaking off a scrappy Georgia Tech team led by a tantalizing little 140-pounder named Johnny Bosch, finally subdued them...
Agha's doctorate is a courtesy title conferred upon him in Berlin, where doctors are as common as colonels in Kentucky. A famed photographer and storyteller, he also plays chess extremely well, for a man without a beard. Outwardly he is as hard-boiled as a Hemingway hero, underneath as sentimental. Symbol of his wry self-depreciation of arts at which he excels is his poem, The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer...
...twice hidden in his Philadelphia home (once for four years), since his escape in 1920. But the court pointed out that he had escaped while the U. S. was technically at war, and there is no statute of limitations on wartime deserters. The court gave him three years at hard labor, to be added to his old five-year sentence for draft evasion. If he behaves, with deductions for the six months he has already served, Prisoner 289 will be free by December...