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Word: heisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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Somehow, between all the landfalls, mini-histories are fitted in-asides about mutinies and scholarly lectures on navigation, on fishing, on map making, on sea chanteys ("Heisa, heisa, vorsa, vorsa, wow, wow," to quote one). The sea turns Morison into a lyric poet who sometimes applies looser moral standards to seamen than to shorebound sinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheering on the Salts | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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