Word: rigging
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...Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
...Jump; Don't Slide. In ships that are battle casualties there may not be time to lower boats, or even to rig cargo nets. But survivors should jump only as a last resort: a man may be knocked out by a high leap, or hit an obstruction. Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than...
...present all large ships carry a chaplain, and soon battleships, carriers and hospital ships will each have two. Men on destroyers and submarines see a chaplain when their vessels meet larger craft. For shipboard service men "rig for church" by setting up an altar, raising the blue and white church flag during hymns, prayers and sermon...
...worked the Democratic Party around to a position where it must nominate him. If the opposition stands firm against him, the next convention will make a Donnybrook Fair look like a love feast, and the Party will be left sprawling and broken. In this situation the President can easily rig the show for himself...