Word: haulings
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...problem could arise during any extravehicular activity, and the answer seems simple: haul in the tether. But in frictionless space, the free-floating astronaut is orbiting the spaceship as it circles the earth, and any attempt to pull him in would make him rotate around it so fast that he would be ultimately subjected to fatal G forces. He would also be moving at an uncontrollable speed when he finally reached-and crashed into-the spacecraft...
...Other agents, in a longtime arrangement with the Jewelers' Security Alliance, investigate jewel thefts and losses; under an agreement with Eastern race tracks, the Pinks guard thoroughbreds and chase away bookies and purse snatchers. Uniformed Pinkerton men stand watch at annual corporate meetings, and have been known to haul obstreperous stockholders out bodily on orders from the chair. The company turns down divorce cases, but its plainclothesmen will track missing persons, check out insurance frauds or, in white tie and tails, guard jewelry at a posh party. No rewards are ever accepted...
This is the theme of the play which, at the end of the novel, Grant sets out to write. "It all takes place on board this schooner, this schooner, cut right in half down the middle, on the stage," he explains. "We'll even haul up sail, and everything. Have a wind machine in the wings, see? Does it sound kooky...
Klopfer felt that he could not leave home for speaking engagements or a planned year's study in Germany. He could not even stray very far from the courthouse: Cooper would suddenly and temporarily call up the case, sending a squad car to haul Klopfer from the classroom to the courtroom. Klopfer demanded a trial, but North Carolina's top court rejected his request - putting him in Cooper's power indefinitely...
Almost any career would do. He tried law, but it bored him. He tried speculation (South American mining shares), and was soon saddled with a load of debts that plagued him nearly all his life. He took to writing, but his first novel, Vivian Grey, scandalized the haul monde, without winning a large public or making much money. Politics became his ladder of last resort. Even then he slipped four times on the first rung before finally winning a seat in Parliament on his fifth...