Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace demonstrations in the U.S. that he "was participating in murder" by assisting in the launching of air strikes from the carrier. Lindner, making the farfetched claim of having seen the flash of bombs dropping on North Viet Nam at night (carriers operate too far from the coast for crewmen to witness strikes), argued that the war was "immoral." Anderson urged others "to follow in our footsteps," said he did not believe the majority of pilots "were in favor of the war" but preferred to remain silent. Barilla declared that he was "against war, all war," and that "the majority...
...have been a November graveyard for aircraft approaching Runway 18. A Boeing 727 crashed in rain little more than a mile from the orchard when the pilot miscalculated his approach during the evening of Nov. 8, 1965, killing 58 of the 62 persons aboard; on Nov. 14, 1961, two crewmen of a Zantop Airlines DC-4 freighter escaped before it exploded amid the apple trees...
From Herman Melville's Captain Vere (who hanged Billy Budd) to Herman Wouk's Captain Queeg (who rolled ball bearings during the Caine mutiny), naval literature has teemed with tales of rumbustious skippers and mutinous crewmen. Of late, the U.S. Navy has pitched and rolled to a real-life story that has all the elements of legend: a destroyer in war-torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy...
Freight trains going through Arkansas must perform an odd ritual. At the border, the train stops and picks up one or two additional crewmen. The men remain aboard, working with the regular crew while the train traverses the state; they are dropped off as it crosses the border...
Arkansas law requires a minimum of six crewmen in both the operation and the switching of a freight train. It and similar laws in other states are the result of persuasive union lobbying, and have generally been upheld in the courts. But now, a three-judge U.S. District Court has struck down the Arkansas law in such a way as to put the others in jeopardy...