Word: pulley
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Well, it was just about dusk when Mrs. Bridges started to take in the wash. It was on one of those hellish, back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...
...well come in; you know what a hell of a racket three million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
...sank a shaft to a depth of approximately 40 feet, and with the aid of a small two-cylindered gasoline engine, an iron triped rising about 15 feet from the ground, and a crude pulley, they succeeded in obtaining small samples of dirt...
After Bareiter had hung in the gusty air for something like half an hour, his helpers, John Rogers and Charles Hahne, climbed up a fire ladder and, by means of a long pole, got a pulley and rope up to him which he hitched to the guy wire. Helper Rogers then snaked up the rope, cut the tangled rope from Bareiter's ankle, lowered him from his blowy height to the roof and safety...
...treating a patient, Dr. Hantlig seats him in a comfortable chair, puts a well-padded sling under his chin and the back of his head. The sling is connected with pulley blocks suspended from the ceiling...