Word: tow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignominious Tow. The conference did not begin with the kind of nourish the principals hoped for. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and his two satellites, Sekou Toure of Guinea and Mobido Keita of Mali, started a day late from the leafy Guinean capital of Conakry. Ferhat Abbas, President of the "provisional" F.L.N. rebel government of Algeria, took off from Spain in a chartered plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom...
That was easier said than done. And still eager and zippy at week's end, Caroline, with her father in tow, boarded a plane for a trip to Palm Beach. There one, and maybe both, were scheduled to get a little rest...
When the break came, the reporters listened to Klein attentively, unexcited but relieved that the long wait was over. Kennedy, with his whole family in tow, appeared about as hour later...
...Taken in tow by the International Rescue Committee, Jaanimets at last felt safe. He had planned his break for three years, he explained, but all Soviet merchant mariners must take their shore leaves in groups and are ordered to keep an eye on each other. Jaanimets had been trusted to work outside Estonia only because he was just nine when the Russians occupied his country and was then considered free from contamination by the pre-Soviet regime. For three years he waited patiently for Baltika to put in at a U.S. port...
That's a good job, familiar to him, he often them as a kid. It's careful and dirty at the same time.... You please people in trouble fixing their cars, and a man is proud to see out on its own the car that limped in the tow truck. The pay is as good as the fellow's, who is respected...