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Word: jap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wackiest Ship in the Army. A World War II farce about a rickety schooner's passage through a Jap-infested ocean is floated only through the splendiferous shenanigans of Jack Lemmon, whose comic art portrays the hopelessly normal joe in hopelessly insane situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jan. 27, 1961 | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch, can't tell gimbals from a department store, and couldn't sail a pea pod in a porringer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Comedies | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

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