Word: tugboater
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Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...
...hooting tugboat nosed up to an odd-looking 4,200-ton contraption in West Germany's Audorf shipyards (on the Kiel Canal) last week, made towlines fast and headed to sea, outward bound for the Persian Gulf, 6,800 miles away. No ordinary barge, the contraption bristled with a 140-ft. derrick, a crane, a heliport, had air-conditioned quarters for 50 men. Built at a cost of $3,500,000, it was the most advanced mobile oil-drilling platform ever built, and a device that its owners, British Petroleum Co. and Compagnie Franchise de Petroles, hope will open...
...shrewd combination of Dr. Christian. David Harum and Tugboat Annie, Ma is "the conscience of her community" and trusts folks "till that trust is violated." Soap operaddicts feel that her show is a pleasant extension of the ancient art of storytelling, and offers helpful hints to daily living. Her detractors find it tired bilge, intensifying human frustration in its calculated attempts to bring temporary relief by dredging emotional sewers...
...Mayflower promoters had not turned the vessel over to a charitable foundation, as planned. There was hope of fresh cash from rubbernecking admissions during a proposed stay in New York Harbor, but even here the long arm of Old World oppression threatened the hardy ship: back in England, Tugboat Owner Ernest Lister instructed his solicitor to have the Mayflower II seized for unpaid towing fees...
Into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters in Washington one day last week waddled Captain William V. Bradley, the lard-bellied ex-tugboat skipper who took over the rackets-ridden International Longshoremen's Association after its expulsion from the A.F.L. in 1953. He was breathing heavily, almost apprehensively-and with good cause. His mission was delicate. He had come to try to persuade President George Meany to take the I.L.A. back into the fold...