They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.

The rest of the crew, myself included, merely stood up to our spikes in heaving, whereas, unwontedly exhilarated, at every turn of the ponderous windlass, my belted comrade leaped atop of it, with might and main giving a downward, thewy, perpindicular heave, his raised eye bent in cheery animation upon the slowly receding shore.

DELGADO OUT OF LINEUP The day after hyperextending his left knee as he tried to catch a foul ball, Carlos Delgado was held out of the starting lineup.

Their simplest and most effective scheme is to create a disturbance during which they can stuff the ballot box as they tried to last night.