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* Heave down: Turn a ship on its side ( for cleaning ).
Titlow then went on to form the indie rock band Heave, who signed to Radar Records in the early 1990s, releasing the singles " Suna / 12XU " and " Pig Pretty.

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Attractions in Mutiny Bay include: Battle Galleons, a large interactive " Splash Battle " water ride where guests sit in pirate boats that travel through a water channel, while soaking other riders with water cannons ; and a rocking boat ride, Heave Ho.

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It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
Deputy coroner says it looks like he sucked in a big pile of those thick suds and strangled on 'em.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
But he knew well enough that those guns would still be trained on his back as he walked towards the wagon.
Even as he spoke those words Billy Tilghman's life hung on a thread.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.
There are millions who accept this doctrine, but few indeed are those who accept it so truly that the fate of humanity lies as a weight on their souls night and day.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.
The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.
In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.
But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.
But for those which do, the slow growth of the area has a retarding effect on the metropolitan core.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female -- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling -- she came back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute.
I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.
Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''.

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Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.
As the batsman started to walk back, captain Rahul Dravid declared the innings when confusion started as the umpires were not certain if the fielder stepped on the ropes and Dhoni stayed for the umpire's verdict.
He developed his own techniques based on ropes and metallic ladders.
Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.
The younger prince dreamt of climbing Mimoro and spanning ropes on four sides, chasing the sparrows that ate the millet.
" Since the statement is a sūtra, it is necessarily compressed and what the ropes produce is not elaborated on, but the context clearly implies the square areas constructed on their lengths, and would have been explained so by the teacher to the student.
The term is also used if the fighter is hanging on to the ropes, caught between the ropes, or is hanging over the ropes and is unable to fall to the floor and cannot protect themselves.
During the gun battle, the hostages secretly worked on loosening their bonds and teethmarks were found on some of the ropes after the gunfire had ended.
The parade float got its name because the first floats were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade marchers on the shore.
This rule is often used strategically in order to escape from a submission hold, and a wrestler can break the plane of the ropes by placing his foot or other body part on ( or under ) the ropes to avoid losing by pinfall.
During the Tang dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang promoted large-scale tug of war games, using ropes of up to 167 meters with shorter ropes attached and more than 500 people on each end of the rope.
The trebuchet was a siege engine which uses the power of men pulling on ropes or the energy stored in a raised weight to rotate what was, again, a staff sling.
Such nonuniform traveling waves are common in many physical problems, including the mechanics of the cochlea and waves on hanging ropes.
There are even small, 10-knot prayer ropes intended to be worn on the finger.

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Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;
`` Now, hold on, damn it ; ;
Soon as the Burnsides moved on, he'd lead Rex down by the river ; ;
Quickly but carefully lowering my duffel bag over the low side-rack, I stepped on the running board ; ;
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
There were gigantic blisters and rope burns on our hands ; ;
The man on the ground began to move ; ;
Cautious feet stepping on leafmold ; ;
A spectacle occurred across the meadow: the lone marine took a seat on the ground ; ;
Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;
She remained squatting on her heels all the time we were there ; ;
Didi and Gogo hover on the edge of suicide ; ;

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