Word: boatmen
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...river front of drab wooden huts had become a gaudy stage. Against the mighty backdrop of brown and grey gorges and leaping yellow waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...
...prepared a statement which he recited to himself as they rocked and roared ashore. Wet and bedraggled, he leaped out on a desolate beach on the edge of the bush, marched up to the only Liberians in sight. They were half a dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world is free of tyrannical dictators." One of the boatmen shook hands. The rest, who had paused solemnly to listen, went back to their work...
Moreover, the opening this month of a new railroad bridge across the Suchiate River between Mexico and Guatemala makes it possible to move freight between the two countries without benefit of tiny barges poled by leisurely boatmen. By next May, when the Central American links of the Inter-American Highway are scheduled to be completed, there will at last be a continuous overland route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone. Mexico's spindly transportation system will then funnel a vastly greater flow of traffic...
Last week the situation was made worse by the arrival of bland May weather bringing smooth Atlantic seas. It was ideal for Axis U-boatmen, who could spot the smoke smudges of their quarry a long way off, and fire their tin fish with accuracy when they closed for the kill. The menace of the submarine in U.S. waters was likely to get more serious before it was liquidated...
...village teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...