Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proprietress of the nearby Sunset Inn Bar & Grill, thought "a boiler was blowing up." She ran out to the street. A conductor jumped out of one of the trains and yelled at her to turn in an alarm. Mrs. McTootle did as she was told, then filled a cooking pot with water and made for the wreck...
...hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink a hole which modern equipment would drill in a week. The well...
...anyone who needed it. "A woman 'ud call about 'er rent," Griffiths recalls. "She 'adn't any money, see? 'Pull up ter th' fire, mother,' the Major 'ud say (they still call 'im Major down Limehouse way). 'Make a pot of tea, Griff, and get a piece of cake. Now you stop crying, mother, and we'll soon get things settled.' " Such is Limehouse's loyalty to Clement Attlee that even today the patrons of the Castle pub along Commercial Road will say: "If yer wants...
...bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers' saloon, was thrown headlong on the table. He ran to the bridge. The ship's clock stood...