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...Excuse. In the end, Rozhestvensky produced a feat of logistics perhaps unequaled until World War II: an unbroken journey of 4,500 miles from Madagascar to the coast of Cochin China, despite 39 stops to repair tow lines, more than 70 engine breakdowns. And it was with oxlike fortitude that he brought his two wallowing columns into battle off Tsushima (literally Donkey's Ears Island). Maneuvering for position, Togo took his column through a perilous column turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single...
...springs and summers. Ford and Hall both began to be aware of the way the years clicked off. New students came, and there were end-of-semester exams. Each of them had married, each had two children, and occasionally on a Sunday afternoon one or the other, family in tow, would walk up to the old three-story brick house and pay Professor Greg a visit.... Greg rarely said anything about what he was working on, or even whether he was working toward any specific goal; but Hall and Ford often ran into him in the library, saw him picking...
...that fools no one, of being a fine-born gentleman. He rides a thoroughbred mare while making his daughter a slavey; he sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when it comes out that the boy's father wants no truck with the peat-bog Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult with a challenge, only to stumble blankly home, all the posturing and pride crushed out of him, to kill that last emblem...
They learned. Both the A.P.'s Will Grimsley and U.P.I.'s Leo Petersen had their own sailing experts in tow...
Martin Street has "no parking--tow away zone" signs on the odd-numbered side, but no signs whatsoever on the even side. The normal propensity of an unsuspecting person would be to avoid the odd side at all times and to assume that parking on the unposted side was allowable at all times. But actually, this is true only in February, April, June, August October, and December. In all other months a car must be parked on the even side during the day and until 1 a.m.; at 1 a.m. it must be towed to the odd side...