Word: steers
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...over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result of this wire was to make the von Papen Cabinet shorten their reactionary sails and steer a more cautious course...
There was a fine gentleman by name of Carney for years in charge of the Square. He knew all the active leaders in college, all the bad actors, all the Harvard Square "students." Carney was always wise enough to be able to steer any incipient riots into the Yard, where everything died quietly...
...underlings are put aboard ship for Sebastopol, to be executed. They capture the ship and head it back for Theodosia which has been recaptured by Reds. The aristocrats on board, aided by the dancing girl, try to magnetize the ship's compass so that they can steer for Sebastopol without letting Kylenko find out about it. For a time the boat is practically spinning in the Black Sea; but when it docks its passengers find themselves at Theodosia. Dmitri is taken off, still smoking, to face a firing squad. The dancing girl, a peasant at heart, attaches herself...
...high and was the originator of the bulldogging stunt (not bulldozing). This nigger was one of the best hands that was ever on this place and up to the time he died would rather jump off a good horse onto a wild steer than eat a square meal. I had him with me in London in 1914 and he had also been to South America previous to that. He was the feature act of the buffalo hunt we had here on June 11, 1905, and it was from this show he got most of his wide publicity." And Pickett died...
...section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull. . . . At no time was Pickett on the bull's back nor did he ever bite the animal's nose. It is one thing to "bulldog" or wrestle with a ewe-necked steer and quite another to tackle a well-developed fighting bull. Pickett found this out, much to his consternation. Owing to the much greater thickness of the bull's neck, instead of being able to lock his fingers together, the tips were barely touching. This made his hold very insecure...