Word: aft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast as a sweatered Southern belle who drifted through one speechless scene. "A Thing," Lana recalls, "walked slowly down the street, then away. She wore a tight sweater and her breasts bounced as she walked ... a tight skirt and her buttocks bounced . . . She moved sinuously, undulating fore and aft . . . She was the motive for the entire picture . . . the girl who got raped...
...thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...Breed, by Combat Correspondent George McMillan, appears the apochryphal but illuminating story of what happened when the first marine reported for duty in 1775. "What, the hell is a marine?" barked the bewildered officer of the deck. "You go aft and sit down till I find out." A few minutes later the second marine-recruit reported aboard and was also sent aft. From the lofty eminence of his seniority, the first man scornfully contemplated the newcomer and snarled: "Listen, boy, you shoulda been in the old Corps...
...Everybody aft," men stumbled into two compartments: the engine room and the engineer's mess. Watertight doors were dogged shut with 20 men in the engine room, 22 in the mess...
...main cause of the extraordinary situation by which talent [in America] is less capable of supporting itself for what it is, and to do what it wants to do, than in most European countries." Critic Spender might also have noted that the kind of haphazard judgment displayed fore & aft of his essay is a questionable boon either to serious literary innovators or their determined handful of readers...