Word: chugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million deepwater port, a $3,500,000 cement factory and acres of new houses. Close to 4,000 workers are employed catching, cleaning and canning plentiful white sea bass, sardines, rock lobsters. A new cannery packs tomatoes and chili peppers grown on farms to the south. White-painted boats chug in and out of the harbor, carrying the guests of 44 new motels to sport-fishing grounds...
...feet without halting; his visitors were many. He talked to visitors about his heart attack. For the first few days, under sedation, he had felt completely spent, not caring what happened next. He had felt his own pulse and found it laboring like a weary steam locomotive: "Chug . . . Chug, Chug, Chug . . . Chuuug." Now the rhythm was calm and strong and regular. That was a good sign, and there were many more...
...Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the little blue engine. 'I think I can-I think I can-I think I can . . .' " Over the mountain at last, with its load of Christmas toys for the children on the other side, the engine puffed happily: " 'I thought I could -I thought I could-I thought I could...
...imposingly dignified man, Fair combines an innate reserve with a penchant for individualism. The result is a Master who can chug-a-lug beer or lead cheers at House smokers and yet command friendly respect in less exuberant moments...
...Club. The band got started when he found some other jazz-record fans around the Disney lot; before long they had dusted off their long-neglected instruments to try a few licks themselves. Their first name: the "Hugga-jeedy Eight," because someone thought their rhythm sounded like the sputtering chug of Kimball's 1914 Ford...