Word: aft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind blew fitfully; long swells rolled outside the breakwater. The Presidential yacht Potomac, armed for the first time with .50-calibre machine guns fore & aft, prepared to cast off, tied up again at reports of rougher weather coming. From the rail of the Arauca, the 44 interned German sailors watched the drinks being passed around on the Potomac's afterdeck, stared at the Presidential party-Harry Hopkins, Cabinet Officers Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes, the President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, Secretaries "Pa" Watson and Steve Early...
...their seagoing foundation in ships of the Atlantic Fleet: the battleships Arkansas and New York, cruisers Quincy, Tuscaloosa, Wichita, Vincennes. After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan altars). Rest of the education is being provided this winter and spring in three-month classes at Annapolis, Northwestern University and on the hulk of the old battleship Illinois...
...bridge was ruined, the compasses, steering gear, charts and wireless gone. The only alternate steering gear aft was nearly wrecked. Only four spokes were left in the wheel. And the flames gained more headway every minute. Then the lifeboat broke away, left them stranded...
...wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain still sat around and pulled at a wheezing corncob pipe...
...leaned on his brush and gazed reflectively into his cart. "Take me," he said. "I can handle horses and donkeys, but I don't like elephants. A new broom always sweeps clean, and what this country needs is a fore-and-aft rigged feed-bag that will get the horses going as well as coming...