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...weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
Over in Irontown ("Arntown") where the teamsters are working, the villagers have their annual religious debauch - a revival. Following local custom, Abner and his mates engage female partners for the whole series of meetings. One night, during a lull in the hysteria, one Tug Beavers temporizes about going to the mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing...
...Bridge" or "Rope"? The treaty may become either a bridge over which Soviet Russia will pass into contact with other "capitalistic" nations, or a rope by which the Soviets may tug Germany out of friendly contact with the west. Frenchmen were generally anxious about and critical of the new instrument last week. Most League officials seemed not to share the French view that it will tend to keep Germany out of the League...
...What prompted Chang Tso-lin to tug delightedly at his large ears? (See CHINA...
...tore them one by one across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...