Word: towed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, on Helsinki's main business street, the Aleksanterinkatu, the Rumanian marksman showed why his mind may not have been on his targets. As a West German newspaperman watched, Calcai rushed from a shop where his Communist guard was buying some bananas. The newsman took him in tow. That night Calcai stayed at the home of the business manager of one of Finland's top liberal dailies. Then he dropped out of sight...
Knetzer ready to tell his story. After hearing him out, McHugh persuaded Knetzer to turn himself in, but not right away. McHugh filed a front-page story to the Her aid-American, then made for Milwaukee with Knetzer in tow...
...countries last week silently swooped out over the dusty yellow airfield of Madrid's Real Aéreo Club. The two-week International Soaring contest, the biggest postwar meet, was coming to a flying finish. Each day at noon ranks of brightly colored sailplanes, eight abreast, were towed to a 1,650-ft. altitude by Spanish Air Force training planes. There, their long tow cables released, the motorless pilots sought out the thermals-rising warm air currents-on which they might ride up to soar highest, farthest or fastest...
Marie Laurencin does not paint self-portraits any more. "At my age," she says, shaking her white head, "that is finished now." She lives alone, and except for an occasional spin around Paris in a bus, she seldom goes out. But the mothers with daughters in tow still come to her. Marie Laurencin shrugs at the thought of landscapes or still lifes: "Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier...
...tired-eyed Texan named Henry Zweifel stepped off a train at Chicago's Dearborn Station one day last week and took a yard-high, safelike steel filing case in tow. In the case, said Taftman Zweifel, were "more than 1,000 documents" to support his arguments that his Taft delegation from Texas should be seated in the Republican National Convention. He had watched over the case all night in his room on the train, he said, so no one would get away with the evidence. When word of Zweifel's arrival with case and comment reached Houston, there...