Word: puget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest street crowds in Seattle's history lined downtown sidewalks when he drove through. His speech in the 12,000-seat Memorial Stadium was made in the afternoon, drew only 6,000. But exuberant throngs of Navy Yard workers jammed a downtown intersection in Bremerton, across Puget Sound, when he appeared there. The crowd yelled, "Lay it on, Harry!" as he renewed his rawhiding of Congress. He cried: "They are going down to Philadelphia to tell you what a great Congress they have been. If you believe that, you are bigger suckers than I think...
...quite as acute as it might have seemed at first glance. Actually, only five -not 60-Russian ships had sailed from New York since Jan. 1; only 13 had sailed from all U.S. ports. Russia had all but ceased to use her shipping route between Vladivostok and Puget Sound...
...escape civilization, 37-year-old Graves spends most of his time in the woods or on the cliffs of Washington's Puget Sound. Lately he and a young Nisei friend named Yonemitsu Arashiro have been living in a forest lean-to and doing what they call "rock painting," which is not painting at all. Graves and Yonemitsu load heavy rocks on their truck, haul them to their backyard, then spend days wrestling the huge boulders into arrangements that please them...
...walk with her aunt. The child was between them, holding both their hands, but it was a dark, rainy night, and neither saw the open manhole. The child fell through, tearing a ring from her father's finger. Eight miles away, where the sewer empties into Puget Sound, her body was found in the sand...
...Thirty-four Puget Sound seaplane owners startled residents of Port Townsend, Wash, by converging on it soon after dawn, landing their aircraft along half a mile of beach, and then leaping out for the world's first "seaplane breakfast...