Word: tug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sightseers were barred from approaching either the ship or the barge. When local fire officials insisted upon inspecting HMB-1, they found its interior completely shrouded by tarpaulins. "Surveillance TV cameras follow anyone who approaches the barge, and guards with big pistols walk beside you on board," reported a tug pilot who once towed the barge...
...Tugs and Pulls. Another destabilizing element is China's radicals, who, despite the apparent strength of Chou and his fellow moderates, have unexpectedly surged to power before and could do so again. "These things in China have never been total and final victories," says Ezra Vogel, director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center. "They are tugs and pulls; this time it looks like a tug on the side of Chou." A crucial death or a sign of weakness in the ranks of the moderates could lead the radicals once again to reach for power...
...compasses and unexplained electrical failures aboard ships and planes crossing the triangle. He also talks of great waterspouts and baffling stretches of "white water" that were noted by navigators who sailed as long ago as Columbus. He provides testimony from a 20th century skipper who says his 160-ft. tug was yanked for a few moments by weird forces, almost as if "somebody wanted us to be in another place from where we were going...
This will probably not happen this Christmas, I suppose, although in a year when Chairman Mao shakes hands with Mrs. Marcos and the Mets trade Tug McGraw, how can you tell for sure? The dude with the piano is going to be a success, soon. I feel it in my bones. I do not want to talk to him. Also, the one time I tried to play some hoop this fall, some tough-looking twelve-year-olds chased us off their court, and I didn't make a shot all afternoon. When these people call next week, maybe I will...
Disputed Implications. While still at the Maritime Administration, the Journal reported, Gibson was approached by and began negotiating for a job with Interstate Oil Transport Co., then a small barge and tug company. In early June 1972 he moved up to Assistant Secretary of Commerce, but he joined the Philadelphia-based Interstate as its president in January 1973. After only 16 months on the job, Gibson left Interstate last May in disagreement over its merger with a subsidiary of Cities Service Co., a big oil company. But Interstate had already agreed to buy out his contract if he left...