Word: tugboat
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...penchant for overtalk. If he were Governor now, Goldberg bragged last week, he could settle the postal strike singlehanded-though a Governor has absolutely nothing to do with the Post Office and no power to give or promise raises. "As Secretary of Labor, I came here and settled the tugboat strike," Goldberg said. "I'd settle this...
...Post published Kenneth Roberts and Stephen Vincent Benét, Agatha Christie and Erie Stanley Gardner, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Norman Raine's Tugboat Annie eternally beat rival Captain Bullwinkle to salvage jobs in Puget Sound; C. S. Forester's Midshipman (or Captain, or Commodore) Hornblower managed to leave himself in such parlous plight at the end of each installment that Post readers could not wait to get at next week's issue. Lorimer paid beautifully: $6,000 for a short story, $60,000 for a serial...
...raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like a tugboat, she can carve an inflection into a tombstone, and she blows bubbles of mirth that might have lured Ulysses off his course. She keeps theatergoers from remembering that the play's the nothing...
...life of Barbra Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer Ray Stark. "You're young and healthy and strong." "What do you mean?" wailed Barbra. "I'm a working mother...
There in the Hudson River off Manhattan lay the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest (at 83,673 tons) ocean liner. Not a tugboat was on hand to ease her 1,031-ft. length into her narrow slip at 52nd Street because the tugs' crews were on strike. What to do? In she goes, commanded Captain Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr, 57, and with infinite care, using hawsers and anchors and great good seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide...