Word: tuggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to make it something big," was Whiting's comment on this war version of the '45 Jubilee, which had featured the voice of Benay Venuta plus and added attraction in the "Battle of Bands,"--a musical tug of war between two orchestras for the benefit of about 300 couples...
...India. There were many prompt to claim that Gandhi, the politician, had not only dried up his sources of world sympathy but was washed up politically as well. The blunt truth was that the Western world had always been less interested in the fate of India than in the tug of war between the British Raj and such articulate Indians as Mohandas Gandhi. Now, once the excitement of the fast was over, the West was not greatly concerned about the life or death of a shriveled little man in a loincloth...
When the gale struck, the tug captain, not seeing the land, steered out to sea for safety. Then the chain-cable towline parted. In the rising waves and wind, two emergency hawsers snapped. Then the hull drifted out of the tugboat's sight...
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. On Oct. 25-26 U.S. carrier forces sank two Jap destroyers, damaged two carriers, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, one destroyer, two battleships. The Japs sank an as yet unidentified U.S. carrier, a destroyer, a tug and a patrol boat. (The carrier Wasp was lost in an earlier action...
...were delivered by air. When other demands prevented continued deliveries, the mechanics caught rain water in buckets, shot gazelles for meat and kept tinkering with the plane. Heavy rains began to fill the river. The mechanics hitched a rope to the plane's nose and got natives to tug it up the bank. A month after the accident the plane roared down a makeshift runway and took off, leaving natives agog...