Word: brig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army Brig. Gen. Peter Rich said yesterday attacks on polling places began Sunday night, but only one site suffered damage. Rich said two guerillas were killed in the attacks...
...Bushman could sing "You're The Top" to each other instead of the audience; a few funny lines were buried in the laughter on opening night and some of the supporting players might raise their volume a little; during the second act, someone says Moon is locked in the brig, after he has clearly participated in the previous production number--oh hell, enough. The flourishes compensate for the flaws: the chorus singing tastefully offstage while only Billy and Hope dance during "It's DeLovely;" the words "knock-knock" delivered in character (Steward--bouncy, Purser--officious, etc.) by anyone knocking...
Then along came Freud. The concept of "will" went out as the concept of "libido" came in. Where does this switch leave the poor 20th century chap with 19th century memories who cannot decide whether he is stoutly at the helm-or down in the brig, manacled to a rusty old neurosis...
...June 6, the 14-gun brig Yankee Hero chased what it thought was a large unarmed merchantman off Newburyport, Massachusetts. The large vessel dropped the disguise from its gunports and revealed itself as the 34-gun British frigate Milford. When Captain James Tracy refused to surrender, the Milford's guns pounded the Yankee Hero for two hours, killing or disabling nearly half its 40 crewmen. Tracy, wounded in the thigh, managed to gasp, "Strike the colors," then fainted...
...June 29, the six-gun brig Nancy was smuggling West Indian gunpowder to Philadelphia when she was trapped by British warships. Under cover of fog, her crew beached her off Cape May, New Jersey, and unloaded 265 barrels of powder-leaving behind just enough for a large explosion. They then lit a long fuse to a keg of powder and fled. Five of the British boats emerged from the fog and sent boarding parties onto the Nancy. Just as they took possession, with three cheers, the cached gunpowder went off. Says one witness: "Eleven dead bodies have since come...