Word: dockhand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-beamed U.S. Navy missile-test ship Norton Sound pulled away from her dock at Port Hueneme, Calif, shortly after dusk one day last August, a dockhand bellowed to Captain Arthur Gralla, the skipper: "What time tomorrow ya coming back, captain?" Yelled Gralla in reply: "I'll let you know." To all appearances, Norton Sound was off on another of her one-day, routine, rocket-testing trips to the Navy's offshore test range. But Gralla knew, even before opening the sealed orders in his cabin, that Norton Sound would not be docking at Port Hueneme (pronounced...
...this day his white-collar origins embarrass Molotov. Once, when he was fulminating about the rights of the toiling masses, Britain's Bevin. a dockhand turned diplomat, rocked him with the question: "What do you know about workers?" Bevin waved his big, work-callused hands in Molotov's reddening face, and demanded: "Show me yours!" The Communist Foreign Minister, whose hands are soft as a banker's, kept them out of sight...