Word: refloated
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Anchors Aweigh. Last fortnight, with the cargo safely ashore, Salvager Canipe and his crew pumped the remaining water out of the Babun, did some work on her machinery and prepared to refloat her. While the natives scoffed. Canipe got two enormous, aged anchors from a Norfolk junk yard, fastened cable lines to them and dropped them a quarter-mile out at sea. The other ends of the cable were fastened to the Babun's freshly oiled winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull...
...amended at our slightest word. The silliness and smallness of this misrepresentation of the American people is abysmal, when one sees the League in operation, functioning smoothly and amicably, and already developing a splendid spirit of universal cooperation in the solving of problems of universal concern. The agreement to refloat Austria has been a tremendous step ahead, for instance, engineered mainly by the patience and skill and altruism of that great Leaguer, Balfour...