Word: bosun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Football League title two weeks before, seemed blissfully unaware that his team was a three-touchdown underdog against the mighty Baltimore Colts, overwhelming champions of the National Football League. "Don't no body put me on their shoulders this time," Weeb said. "Two of you make a bosun's chair with your arms and carry me off that...
Larry Bryggman as Delano and Arthur Merrow as his bosun Perkins seldom seem comfortable with Lowell's highly stylized language, and make unfortunate attempts to naturalize it--leaving it stilted and often absurd. The blacks--played by about 15 members of Boston's New African Company -- are effective when overtly menacing, but otherwise confused and distracting, never successfully realizing the foreboding eerie simplicity of a Greek chorus...
...Lancetilla came in first in its second division and ahead of all but four of the first-division boats, winning the coveted Blue Water Bowl with a corrected time of 72 hr. 27 min. 28 sec. Said one of Cameron's exultant colleagues: "Does Chichester need a bosun on his next voyage...
...battle scenes that follow have an eerie air of realism. Supporting the landing at Guadalcanal, the ship undergoes her first attack by Japanese aircraft. Sirens, bugles, bosun's pipes and klaxons sound while a single blinker flashes in the darkness. The voices of fighter pilots mingle with the staccato rat-a-tat of machine-gun bullets: "I see about 40 bandits . . . Red, where are you? Dusty, Dusty . . . Dusty's gone in." Then the big, 16-in. guns belch out billows of multicolored smoke...
...task-group skipper. When the time came for the guests to shift from the supercarrier Forrestal to the missile cruiser Springfield, a high line was rigged, and the vessels slowed to 15 knots. "Which seat will you take?" asked Durgin, as their turn came on the double bosun's chair. "The front," replied Oldendorf, and off they went, back to back. Halfway across, a pelican hook popped, and Durgin nosedived into the drink, while Oldendorf plopped in "backside first you might say." Hauled aboard the car rier, the sopping brass was restored with a hooker of medicinal brandy...