Word: towed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over...
...socialism. Included in her haphazard schooling were two years during the War in an Arkansas cooperative colony run by radicals and conscientious objectors, where she read William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Zola. When her mother came back from an anti-War tour with a young Irish poet in tow, they all went to Seattle, where Bertha's mother entered the University of Washington. There Bertha, now 16 and 160 lb., "like a truck horse," had her first lover. She took to the road, fell in love with an anarchist in San Francisco, followed him to New Orleans...
...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
Other works which will be heard are: Berg's four pieces for clarinet and piano, three songs by Berlioz and Stravinsky's new tow piano concerts...
...Chronicle's men had their own pictures, and their launch engine was running smoothly. While the Examiner's, men fumbled with their dead engine and crippled diver, the Chronicle launch, unaware of the situation, sped ashore and delivered its plates to waiting messengers. Then it returned to tow in the disabled Examiner launch. It was an hour between the diver's smash and medical attention for him at a hospital. There, for hours, the shocked mother and the wife (three months with child) faced the alternative of their man's death from a severed spinal cord...