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Most everyone knows one fact about tugboats: a good tugboat man can hurl a torrid phrase across the water hard enough to make it bounce. But few know another important fact: that the Dutch had a virtual monopoly before the war on deep-sea towing...
Getting tagged is a pleasure," said one fleet Funster as he eyed the girls' flying wedge approaching and set to hurl himself into the branches of the once tightly packed lines...
...assure Lieut. Hawkins that I . . . . stand ready to return to active duty in order to stop dead and hurl back, by force of arms should it be necessary, the Iron Curtain that Moscow seeks to forge around the world...
...Schoenberner, who now lives in New York City and is working on another book, was reared in the rarest air of German intellectualism. Son of a Berlin pas tor, he was subject to spasms of brattish rage, until his adoring mother taught him how much safer it was to hurl abstract arguments instead of "all kinds of physical objects." By the time he was 13, sharp-witted Franz had logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that of the German...
...Nenni's embryonic International could expect a blast from the other side too. The Communists seemed ready to hurl their inevitable charge of a capitalist plot to form an anti-Soviet western bloc. When a reporter for Moscow's Tass News Agency asked Léon Blum whether he really wanted to resurrect the Second International, Blum replied he did not understand the question. The Tassman rushed from the room, in a huff, slamming the door...