Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inexorably, the Red pincers tightened around Shanghai. Inside the shrinking Nationalist lines, sweating soldiers and coolies dug trenches, strung barbed-wire barricades, sowed "dragon's teeth"-thick rows of sharpened bamboo stakes pointed toward the approaching enemy. If a stand were made at all, it would be made inside a belt of defense that extended 30 miles from the city's teeming center...
Alberto Dodero laid a course toward the big time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties...
This is known among crewmen as "catching a crab," and is generally considered a fate worse than death, especially if it occurs during a race. Many time the effect of knifing in is not so devastating as described above, but even the slightest tendency toward this mistake will unbalance the boat and cause the oarsmen on the opposite side to "wash out," finishing their stroke with oars partly out of the water...
Bolles' oarsmen, on the other hand, start each stroke with a gigantic pull which eases off toward the finish, enabling them to finish their stroke smoothly and shoot their hands back into position for the next cycle with a smooth, even motion...
...Chinese Communist troops marched toward Shanghai last week, an advance column of rumors invaded the panicky city and its press. The harried commander of Shanghai's Nationalist garrison rushed into print with a censorship order that brought a snicker even from the censored newsmen. Stated Regulation No. 6: "Except [for] the news released by this headquarters, all ... newspapers and news agencies are forbidden to publish other inaccurate war news...