Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with a line from a vessel foundering on the Nova Scotia coast, helping rescuers haul passengers and crew to safety. Newfoundlands are still used as lifeguards on beaches in France. Their fitness for such work was proved on no less a near drowning victim than Napoleon...
...clockwork heist that lasted just two minutes. In that brief time, the four stickup men netted what was probably the biggest holdup haul in French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend...
...that would require presidential approval and congressional concurrence. The President's decision is expected this week or next. The only other immediate way to use all the oil would be to ship it by tanker through the Panama Canal to the U.S. Gulf Coast, a long and expensive haul...
...years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures as pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings can best be described as haul kitsch: kaleidoscopic lighting, silver vińyl banquettes, tented nooks, birch trees hung with twinkly Italian lights, jungles of synthetic plants, Plexiglas floors. Not a few, however, are decorated in notably good taste; and some seem to have been designed by the people who went on to make Star Wars...
...unexplained but noisy eccentricities, which he cheerfully stresses in a variety of accents and many a broad gesture. He provides energy in what would otherwise be purely expository scenes, but he is rather hard on any scenery or actors who happen to get in his way. Over a long haul, he is also wearying - like a drunk at a party who refuses to shut...