Word: tug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [Dec. 17] under Miscellany you stated that a tug "chuffed" down the harbor. Please tell me what a tug does when it chuffs...
...York, J. H. Neale hired a tug, chuffed down the harbor, roared greetings through a megaphone to his homecoming...
Steve O'Neill, more confident than ever about his TNT, could go to Sunday Mass with no worldly intent to take an extra tug at his beads-in supplication for so mundane a thing as a World Series victory. Once again the Tigers were favorites, and Jolly Cholly slept poorly, knowing that Hal Newhouser would be throwing them in against his club...
...excitement of rodeo time: the smell of corrals, the sight of a squealing bronco making his first, lurching jump in dusty sunlight. To many an American it was the lovely, casual look of a yellow fly line falling out on running water and the first, heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across the car's radiator, the sight of ducks in mist or pheasant starting like an explosion...
...Sullivan,*Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and rumored successor to Secretary Forrestal), lent an influential hand to the rescue of a disabled sloop off the New Hampshire shore. Weekending at Little Boars Head, he reported the craft's plight to the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and a Navy tug towed the sloop ashore...