Word: snugly
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...Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...
...young David Eisenhower, on his way home from summer camp and a week with grandfather. As soon as the Columbine was aloft, David, at grandfather's insistence, exchanged his Davy Crockett outfit for a pair of white pajamas with red dots. Within a few minutes he was snug in a berth in the President's private compartment. Ike turned in soon after...
...diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank you very much for the hat," beamed Molotov as he returned to his train. "We must all work for world peace...
...crew of three was mustered under Bertrand's own command to guide the cargo to snug haven, and when all was in readiness, the anchor was raised...
...cold-shoulder the stranger who threatens their peace of mind. Harding defends himself by putting a steely armor on and letting his heart freeze up. By war's end, Harding has surrendered because he no longer believes that creative man can ever win. He settles tamely into a snug U.S. professorship. "The Faculty had no idea that it was a glacial shell of a man who had come to live among them, mainly because they were themselves unfilled with anything more than a little academic stuffing...