Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shannon, the short, freckled bosun, cups his hands around his mouth and bellows, 'All hands on deck! Sail stations!' His words echo across the deserted, fog-wet decks of the Eagle, and men come scrambling up ladders and out of doorways. Dozens pull themselves up into the rigging, swarming 150 ft. above the deck to loosen the tightly furled sails. 'Loose the foreroyal!' cries Shannon. 'Loose the main royal! Man the fore t'gallants'l sheets and halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play...
...vehicles of varying durability fill out the party. The passengers are instant minor celebrities in each small town they pass. Villagers look, wave, offer plates of homemade cookies and other food, and sometimes get bitten by the bug and join up. The historic sort of leisure exerts a unique pull on the mind. Wagonmaster Keith Kreykes, 52, a cook, in the course of the journey has headed up as many as 48 wagons carrying up to 150 people. "You forget what day it is, and you forget the time pressure," says his wife Gale, 54. "You can live each...
...fail. Other than a helium leak that caused excess pressure in the spacecraft's propulsion system as it neared Mars, Viking had performed flawlessly since leaving Cape Canaveral last August on its journey across space. As it neared its destination a fortnight ago, gathering speed as the pull of Martian gravity increased, Viking took increasingly detailed pictures of Mars. They showed no evidence of the swirling sandstorms that had obscured the surface as Mariner 9 approached in 1971, and the proposed Viking landing site in Chryse was clearly visible. Even more significant to the scientists, the Martian atmosphere showed...
...proprietary colonies (Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, where the heirs of William Perm and Lord Baltimore still control vast tracts of land received from the Crown) delayed. Pennsylvania's James Wilson argued before the Congress: "Before we are prepared to build the new house, why should we pull down the old one, and expose ourselves to all the inclemencies of the season?" But on May 15, at the suggestion of John Adams, the Congress recommended that the colonies form new governments "where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established." John Adams wrote...
...more toughly. Left unmentioned in Kuhn's decision was a major worry. Some 55 players, many of them the game's most valuable, will be free agents once the season is over. The wheeling and dealing then could make the Tuesday Night Massacre look like a taffy pull...