Word: tuggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest! I protest against the expressions used with regard to our Crown Princess Juliana: "Plump Princess Juliana . . . [danced] the conga. . . . She slipped, and stayed down, while [the Duke of Gloucester] tried to tug...
...retired, began to arrive, the royal family's eight-year austerity unbent. At a dance at Buckingham Palace, plump Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was dancing a conga with Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. She slipped, and stayed down, while Harry of Gloucester tried to tug her up amid a moment of embarrassed silence...
...them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation's cage-bird breeders held their fourth national show with 2,021 entries, mostly canaries, including such varieties as curly feathered frills, big Norrich plain-heads. An Indian...
Sandwiched between two barges carrying 40 loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made...
Like most of the world's wandering peoples, Armenians cherish the dream of home. In Manhattan, last week, 150 of the 150,000 Armenians in the U.S. found the tug of homesickness too strong to resist. They stepped aboard the trim, white Soviet steamship Rossia, sailed for the old country-now a part of the U.S.S.R...