Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intent of the Senate amendment is to save the lives of men under 20, but it will not necessarily work that way: 1) Army death rate in the U.S. is 2.15 per thousand, but in Bermuda it is only half that, in Iceland only 1.62; 2) an 18-year-old could not go to Puerto Rico where the principal hazard is sunburn, but with only one day in the Army he could go into action against Japs in Alaska...
Chief trappers are experts and bureaucrats, says Thurber, and gives some examples. Once he tried his hand at sailing and a Bermuda lady-expert promptly asked: "Do you reef in your gaff-topsails when you are close-hauled or do you let go the mizzentop-bowlines and crossjack-braces?" Author Thurber did not know, partly because he just sailed for the hell of it, partly because the lady was so nautical that what she really said was: "Do you reef in your gassles when you are cold or do you let go the mittens and crabapples...
...slumlands of Spanish Town and Old Harbor increasingly restless. On the fringes of Kingston there are 9,000 now unemployed inland and mountain laborers, who refuse to go home after a taste of higher wages on Jamaica's new U.S. naval base. The cruiser Ajax and troops from Bermuda quelled Kingston's strike riots in 1938. Now 1,300 white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered out on parade one day before the annual celebration of Emancipation Day, commemorating the freeing of Jamaican slaves...
...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...
...There were street fights; German and Italian business houses were stoned. Germany's blunder clearly did not help such German propaganda as that reported by the captain of the freighter Rio Gallegos, just back in port. He told how a Nazi submarine commander had stopped him north of Bermuda, presented him with a Nazi decoration (from the commander's own breast) and a bottle of champagne...