Word: forepeak
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Bright Crimson at the forepeak...
...Irishmen by the thousands into stinking steerages had the people of Cork seen such seaborne misery. "What's to become of them?" asked one spectator emptily, as he gazed at the puny, battered British landing craft clinging to the Cork wharfside. Strings of ragged laundry hung on her forepeak. Bales, boxes, kiddie cars and prams overflowed from some of her lifeboats. In others, passengers, unable to find space on cluttered decks, sat patiently and nibbled at their meager rations...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
...international incident which the German Press could scarcely overlook and thus to assure German Communists that U. S. Communists were still with them, a party of Manhattan Marxists last year raided the German Liner Bremen at the price of a half-dozen cracked pates, tore the Swastika off its forepeak, tossed it into the Hudson River (TIME. Aug. 5. 1935). Last week, at the same price, the same technique was used to let the Reich's Reds know how U. S. Reds felt about the German attitude toward the Spanish Revolution (see p. 18). Hour and a half before...
...brought H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester home from his tour Down Under (TIME, April 8). Last week Gloucester was marooned on the Australia while the King's other three sons were with His Majesty on the brass-funneled Victorian royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From her forepeak flew the Leopard of the Lord High Admiral of England, the King. Sixty-four special trains chuffed in with a trampling, eager throng which other means of transport swelled to 250,000. In all 54 females fainted. With the sun blistering down, George V received on his yacht slews...
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