Word: towing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers over off-shore mining, his party colleagues refused to support him, and he was forced to make a humiliating retreat. Gorton's personal style was, to say the least, indiscreet. He once arrived late at a U.S. embassy party with a 19-year-old lass in tow, then spent the remainder of the evening chatting with her and ignoring his hosts and other officials present...
...scenario stars Norman himself as Dutiful Little Homemaker and features our bold hero trudging off to the Maine woods for six weeks, five of his six children in tow, so that the soul of eagerness, he can "get some idea of what it might be like to raise a family." But he does find himself a little help, it seems; a few bit players are added to the cast: "a good Maine woman" who does the cleaning and laundry, and his sister who comes up for two weeks, and finally, as by now you may yourself have gathered, his "dearest...
...writes in a recent issue of Izvestia, the speedometer stopped working when he headed home to pick up his family. Next the engine went thud-thud: a connecting rod had broken and the car had to be towed back to its garage. The tow-truck driver told Parchamovsky to keep his foot on the brake to maintain a safe distance between truck and car. But when the Moskvich's brakes began to smoke, Parchamovsky took his foot off the pedal. At that instant, the truck braked abruptly to avoid a pedestrian. Result: one crumpled Moskvich right fender...
...rubles) for the tow...
...Harvard Glee Club presents to the Harvard community as a glee club is the annual fall football concert, I wrote to Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club, on April 30 expressing my wish to keep this year's concert in the traditional style: a performance by tow glee clubs. It was my understanding at the time that the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Women's Chorus were two separate organizations with different conductors. On May 19, Mr. Heath wrote that this proposal was acceptable to him. Then in September he telephoned me to say that the choral...