Word: tow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild, natural way of life. The clincher of this zoological success story is that Elsa, once taught by her human protectors how to stalk and kill, remained their friend until her death in 1961, paying them frequent visits, sometimes with her own trio of snarling cubs in tow...
Malcolm (Matthew Cowles) is a 15-year-old who looks like frosting and is chock-full of Innocence. A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal...
...m.p.h. Buehler Corp. exhibits its Bolero with water-jet propulsion that can make 44 m.p.h. Even closer to being airborne is Water Spyder Marine Ltd.'s first hydrofoil pleasure craft. Twelve feet overall and priced at $970, it can ride up onto its foils in seconds, tow a skier at close to 40 m.p.h...
Tobin has introduced a bill in the Massachusetts General Court Estate legislature which would authorize the construction of a ski tow in the Harvard-run Arnold Arboretum by the City of Boston...
Tobin said yesterday that there is a large bare hill without any trees in the arboretum which would be ideal for a simple ski tow or T-bar. Such a facility, he declared, would improve the area, add to its value and "would not be abhorrent to the purposes of the arboretum nor mar its beauty...