Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bork, whose crew cut and casual dress bear noresemblance to the Circuit Court judge's suits andscraggly beard, said he was surprised when theletter arrived at his room because he had neverbeen to Laceyville and had no idea who Wisecarverwas...
...course she did not. Found a good, perhaps unsuspected, part of it, actually. As she says, among all her movies and plays, The African Queen is the one that remains vividly in memory. For good reason. Tough shoot -- they don't come any tougher. Heat. Bugs. Snakes. Minimum crew, equipment. Maximum heightening of the senses deep in exotic country. Sensitive descriptions of people, landscape. Plus. Bogart a total pro -- on time, lines letter-perfect, hating his hairpiece. John Huston an elusive macho sprite -- flitting through the jungle dropping big game, occasional shrewd directorial insights (gave Hepburn Eleanor Roosevelt as role...
...captain of a Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...
Overall, women constitute roughly 10% of the 2.1 million active-duty members of the armed forces. Women serve on about 50 Navy ships and at most U.S. bases abroad. The captain accused in the report of offering to sell women crew members commanded the noncombat vessel Safeguard, which had 18 women among its six officers and 84 enlisted men. A Navy spokesman claimed that the captain's "distasteful" offer was meant as a joke, but his superiors did not consider it funny. They relieved him of his command and filed other sexual- harassment charges against...
Reporters in a Pentagon press pool who were allowed to visit the Iranian vessel said there were three large gashes in the hull and deck and that it was pocketed by machine-gun fire and stained with blood. They quoted sources as saying it appeared the crew had destroyed documents before abandoning the ship...