Word: crews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ship's owners, tried to pacify the passengers by announcing that drinks were on the house. It hardly helped. Fistfights and swearing matches broke out. One drunken man took a swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began to protest too. One maitre d' fled his dining room in dismay. Said he: "I'm going to stay and get killed by people...
...London, Conn. The discipline, he says, "was awfully healthy," and he began "to understand the techniques of making an organization work." Graduating in 1945, he got to Japan just after the war ended. A year later, at 20, he was given command of a landing craft, with a crew of 30, to bring through the Panama Canal to Galveston and mothballing...
What this "New Nixon" apparently wants, and what a particularly quick-moving crew of revisionist historians seems determined to give him, is a place in the history books considerably less corroded than the soiled niche he now holds. And what he is relying on are the exceptionally poor memories of the American people...
Meanwhile, it seems that all of the Boston Lobsters, that fun-lovin', division-leadin' crew, were finally overhauled by a bevy of fanatic chefs during Wimbledon. Alas. The only escapee was Martina Navratilova, who, we are happy to re-report, caught the women's singles title over Chris "Baseline Machine" Evert. Congratulations...
...surrounding landscape, eyeing the bums lounging in the late-morning sun in front of the local rip-off tavern--the one that raises its prices twice a month, on the days when the welfare checks arrive in the mail--and watching with a sort of morbid curiosity as a crew of teenagers begins harassing a crippled wino as he staggers his way into the local pawn shop to barter away his past for a pint of skull-buster. How the other half lives, and all that, and you turn back to your newspaper. But then you realize that...