Word: hulk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia last week, it would have been better for Beau had he obeyed the laws of physics and fallen down. In the sixth round, Champion Ike Williams (alias the Trenton Tiger) had him backed into a corner, a helpless hulk. Ike punched away until his arms grew weary, then lowered his gloves and looked at the referee as if to say: "Aren't you gonna stop it?' What was holding Beau up? None of the 12,952 spectators knew. Getting no help from the referee, Ike reluctantly went back to pounding his victim. When Referee Charley Daggert finally...
...Price of Civilization. Spring has come early and generously to Berlin this year; the sweet-scented lindens touch fragrant fingers to form graceful arches. But Berlin's people breathe the dust of ruins-ruins that have a kind of awful majesty. There is the burned, bombed hulk of the Reichstag with the crows napping foolishly around the beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers...
Personal Traits. A big (6 ft. 3 in., 215 lbs.), trim hulk of a man with a huge head (size 7⅞ hat) and thinning red-blond hair, he swears rarely, smokes not at all, limits his drinking to two Scotches (neat). He wears conservative ties and double-breasted suits, which he buys off the rack at St. Paul's Maurice L. Rothschild & Co. He is equally at home with bankers and ditchdiggers. He is formal in his professional relationships, always keeps his coat on whatever the temperature, looks disapprovingly on those of his associates who wear flashy sports...
According to reports from its feeble radio, often picked up by "hams," the Kon-Tiki's voyage had been reasonably uneventful. There had been one moderate storm, which did not endanger the buoyant raft. Whales, dolphins and sharks had played around her slowly drifting hulk, and the crew caught lots of fish...
...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...