Word: gangways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KINGDOM for a stage!" cried Shakespeare, but he could only dream and meanwhile curse the "unworthy scaffold" he must needs make do with. The stage, when Romeo and Juliet was first presented, was little more than a gangway shunted shoulder-high through a roaring mob.*Down these bare boards an actor strode, and with a wave of the arm required his hearers to believe they were "in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." In later centuries, notably toward the end of the 19th, productions of Shakespeare became almost as richly furnished as they were badly played; but not until...
...does he pass around the bottle. "We went out and had a good day and caught plenty fish and got pooped," he says. "Now we can relax for a while and talk and go to sleep." With a tired smile on his tired, grizzled face, he lumbers up the gangway and off to his car and home...
...better anchorage. To move to another site, the lower deck is pumped out and refloated, and the "legs" are pulled back up. The main barge is connected to another, slightly smaller service barge with engine rooms, crew's quarters, helicopter platform, etc.. by a narrow steel gangway. Thus, say oilmen, Mr. Gus should be even more seaworthy than Humble Oil's big, new. single-deck Delong-McDermott barge (TIME. June 21). Bethlehem figures if the offshore producing area that is believed to lie within the 100-ft. depths is to be fully drilled in the next...
Socialists, who had suffered under Churchill's taunts of "Scuttle" when they advocated withdrawal from Suez in 1946, thoroughly enjoyed Churchill's discomfiture, greeted him with sardonic cries of "No scuttling." Below the gangway sat 40 grim-faced Tories, the "Suez rebels" sworn to vote against the government rather than accept withdrawal. The first question Opposition Leader Clement Attlee asked was barbed: "In view of the statements which were made by the present Prime Minister on the absolute necessity of having troops in Egypt for the defense of the Suez canal . . . may I ask whether this agreement...
...such entries appear as, 'No way of escape!' or 'Buffalo!' or 'I am beaten,' until at last they cannot write a word. And, twittering all over, old before their time, with eyes like rissoles in the sand, they are helped up the gangway of the home-bound liner by kind bosom friends (of all kinds and bosoms) who bolster them on the back, pick them up again, thrust bottles, sonnets, cigars, addresses, into their pockets, have a farewell party in their cabin, pick them up again, and, snickering and yelping, are gone: to wait...