Word: dockyards
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...under way on her trial run. Instead of her regular crew, she had aboard hundreds of dockyard men and technicians. Some 180 miles south of Nagoya, the U.S. submarine Archerfish sighted her, dark and enormous among a shoal of destroyers...
...next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with flowers, and window boxes...
...native seaman on a training ship. The British said that the officers had refused to let a political speaker address the crew. Before the sun went down, 12,000 seamen of the Royal Indian Navy had seized a score of ships, 18 naval shore stations and a naval dockyard in Bombay Harbor. For two days their ships, deployed in battle line along the harbor wall, defied the British. At Castle Barracks, where besieging British troops fought barricaded Indians, the mutineers turned their artillery on the Bombay Yacht Club (the very symbol of British racial supremacy), where no Indian may enter...
Artist Doughty's bird-making was interrupted when, after the fall of France, she took a job in the Royal Naval dockyard at Chatham, Kent. Later she was injured at the yards, returned to her porcelain birds in Cornwall. There she lives quietly with her mother, spends most of her days in her studio. The U.S. bird series now numbers ten pairs. Among them: goldfinches, chickadees, indigo buntings, Baltimore Orioles, mockingbirds. One of the fortunate owners of a complete set of Doughty birds: former director of National Audubon Society Mrs. Carll Tucker...
Bridges arrived in the United States in 1920, at the age of 20. After the bloody dockyard strikes of 1934, the Communist charges began to pour in, and in 1936 Bridges was exonerated from those charges by the Department of Labor. Then in 1938 a special commission under Dean Landis of the Law School decided that he was not deportable. His methods, Landis said, were not "other than those that the framework of democratic and constitutional government permits...