Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even after he realizes that their failure to receive a shipment of arms has postponed the Provisionals' fall offensive and prevented his own hiring, Hood doesn't deliver the guns. He has come to despise the army's terrorism as a kind of play-acting directly opposed to his own truly dramatic sense of violence. In fact, for two of the Provos' fashionable sympathizers, acting and life are terribly confused. Araba Nightwing is a popular actress who proves her dedication to the cause by masquerading as a housewife and ranting against-Punch and Judy shows. Lady Arrow, an aristocratic...
...More recently Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union and the Chicago Divinity School have been correcting the imbalance in the West, but there has been no collection below the Mason-Dixon line to match the luster of those in the Northeast. Now that has changed. Last week the final shipment of some 220,000 volumes-nearly 4% shelf miles of books-from Hartford's superb collection went South, bound for the library of Candler School of Theology, part of Emory University in Atlanta. Added to Candler's own library of some 117,000 books of more recent vintage...
...finish line 14th in a field of 16 Tempest-class sailboats, they looked their not-so-good ship Gift 'Orse in the hull, set the fiber-glass beast afire and sank it in Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman Hunt could kindle it. "His performance was wretched," said Warren. Canadian...
...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...
...arranged to buy a cargo of gunpowder in Surinam last November and charged a price of 6 shillings a pound, which General Washington called "most exorbitant" (in December Brown made a profit of ?20,000 for such work). But the price is still rising. On Brown, Hopkins' latest shipment from the West Indies a month ago, the firm had to pay 14 shillings a pound and made the somewhat reduced profit of ?1,403. All in all, about 1 million pounds of gunpowder have by now been imported, most of it unloaded in Philadelphia and stored by Congress...