Word: flotsam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam? He received a telegram on the battlefield which read: 'We regret to inform you that your mother and father were killed "in action" in Los Angeles.' " When a Mississippi anti-poverty program folded, Ward bade farewell to the "slew-footed, unsoaped ragtag of human flotsam who were roaming Mississippi to create hate and provoke a killing...
...Flotsam. Fifteen ships plowed through calm, moonlit seas near the crash scene, and soon eleven helicopters skimmed low over the surface. They dropped flares, illuminated the area with floodlights, held rescue divers at the ready to plunge into the icy water should there be any sign of survivors. There was none...
More than two hours passed before the first flotsam of disaster bobbed to the ocean surface. Then Coast Guardsmen began fishing out the remains: shreds of metal covered with flesh, a child's mitten, a blue snowsuit, a stewardess' jacket, a woman's mohair coat, a paperback copy of Call It Sleep, and-eventually-the body of a little boy. Part of the cockpit floated up, and when rescuers began to lift it out of the water, the headless body of a crew member flopped out into the water...
...accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life which surrounds him. I refuse to ac cept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daylight of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...
From then on, the weapons chosen range from flotsam and jetsam to pure slapstick. Director Jack Cardiff is at his most ingenious in a triumphal march that turns out to be an ambush-long avenues of Moorish troops stand at rigid attention, each with a quick viking blade at his back. In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast. Though such wounds are invariably mortal, they never seem the least bit serious. And that is probably what keeps Ships from going under...