Word: hauled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scout group for teenagers, remember with awe the time they were sailing a 65-ft. schooner across Long Island Sound, and a violent storm blew out the mainsail. "Some of the boys were crying or vomiting," recalls one sailor, but Hazelwood volunteered to climb the 50-ft. mast to haul in the sail and its hardware. "Jeff related to sailing like a pro golfer who swings a club for the first time," recalls Sea Scout Ralph Naranjo, who today runs a local yacht club. "He had a real feeling for the vessel...
...rise apartments overlooking the river and downtown St. Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city, has a dimmer view. "East St. Louis today doesn't even have bootstraps," he says...
Marley, however, is sticking around for the long haul...
...Business School has come through after a lot of talk and question marks to show it's in it for the long haul, after years of people saying it should do something and [President Derek C.] Bok saying it should do something," says the Rev. Robert K. Massie, a doctoral student at the B-School and a former fellow in the University's Ethics and the Professions program. "Ethics is something that could have been blown off, [but B-School officials] have shown they're not kidding about...
...large a tip they can extract from their clients ("Bwana, give me your boots when we finish our safari"). These young members of the Wachagga tribe, who spend much of the year working on coffee plantations, saunter upward, balancing 30-lb. sacks of climbers' gear on their heads. Some haul large green wooden boxes of provisions, water jugs -- and even live chickens...