Word: tug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kill Me Now!" The refugee ship dodged and turned, but, after 48 hours, gave up. Then, surrounded by the three destroyers, two police boats and a tug, the captive Jewish Assembly, flying blue-and-white Zionist flags, entered Haifa harbor. As it gently nosed to the quay, there was a strange silence on its packed decks. Grenadier guardsmen, unarmed and unhelmeted, stood by with ambulances. Guardsmen, led by an officer, climbed the gangplank...
...both lines reported tough, Saturday's contest may develop into a stalemate on the ground and a resultant aerial circus. For the much-landed Crimson forward wall, it will be a major test For the much-abused Harvard student body, binoculars from their end zone seats should reveal a tug of war par excellence...
...have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm, tug on the sleeve and an insinuating voice saying, 'That's a nice patch you're wearing; have you a spare you don't need?' And so it goes. . . . Would appreciate anything you gentlemen . . . can furnish Bobby and me." We furnished Bobby and his father with whatever...
...Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed the ship to the lock. The canal was blocked for 24 hours, longest delay in its history, before a Government tug could move the Goderich...
...sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions is a shrewd stockbreeder's intuition that blood lines are strengthened by a little exogamy. If The River Road sometimes seems as long and leisurely as the Mississippi, it also has some of the river's cumulative impressiveness. Sales to date: 270,000 copies...