Word: hauled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
...gasoline tax boost from 7? to 9? a gallon (highest in the U.S.); 3) a 100% boost in the state sales tax (from 1? to 2? ); 4) a $100 tax on slot machines (although they are illegal); 5) increased levies on natural gas and crude oil. Estimated yearly haul...
...best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work out from Kelley's shaft into abandoned levels, blast off huge blocks of ore-the first time for such a method at such depths. Oversize buckets and mine cars will haul out the ore for the smelters...
...morning last week Annie was up & about, to get breakfast for a son and daughter and Bert Hadley, for whom she keeps house. Then she got into oilskins, rubber boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the bay's ice floes to haul her lobster pots. She rowed to the collecting smack to sell her catch, then headed home again. There she milked the cow, fed it and the horse, did the barn chores, and before cooking lunch got in a few licks at a fence she was fixing. In the May-to-October...
...civil contempt.* Lewis could be jailed or fined on the civil charge at the discretion of the court. Morison noted that 85% of the miners had gone back. His recommendation: the civil penalty should be postponed. This meant that Lewis would still be on the hook. The court could haul him in and fine him at the drop of a miner's pick. Judge Goldsborough thought the suggestion "eminently proper" and adjourned the case...