Word: tug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly two hours later, after long haggling with heavily armed Chinese Communists over the signing of release papers, Mrs. Ward and 18 others of the American Mukden consular family (four, besides Ward, had been jailed by the Communists) were transferred from a sloshing tug to the Lakeland Victory this week to begin the long voyage home...
...back broken, the old warrior settled slowly into the trough, sea water surging through her open ports. But she would not sink. A tug was ordered in to ram. Still the Implacable stayed afloat. For three hours the old ship lay awash, her gunwales flush with the waves, her flags still flying. Then, as darkness fell, her old timbers parted and she went under. Victory's victory was at last complete...
While a violent storm lashed British Columbia a fortnight ago, the 101-ton tug George McGregor was returning without tow from Bamberton to Victoria. Rounding Trial Island, near Victoria, she caught the full blast of the gale and the pull of the riptide. The combination was too much. She began to roll, then capsized and sank...
...went down with the tug. The other five crewmen managed to launch the small lifeboat. It, too, soon capsized. The only man who could not swim, Gerald Anderson, 17, managed to crawl athwart the upturned lifeboat. One by one the others lost their grip and went down. An hour and a half later the lifeboat washed ashore and Anderson was picked...
...Words. As speakers went into action, the President's temper began to tug at its moorings; the evening was devoted to frequent criticism of his Administration, particularly in its operations in the fields of labor and taxation. When he was asked-three hours after his arrival -to say a few words of greeting, he rose with his face set and delivered some rough-edged criticism...