Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great ship's bridge, gold-braided, choleric Commodore Cyril Gordon Illingworth paced restlessly. "We'll sail at 3 p.m.," he had said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
...last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
...green took but a few minutes. The union had surrendered; the rank & file now had their representation. Then Murphy spoke: "They said I had no control over you. Well, we will throw that back at them. I say you are going back to the ship and you'll take her out this afternoon. Will you?" The response startled the birds in the trees overhead and several men raised clenched fists. "All right," said Murphy, "go back to the ship...
...shouldering seabags or paper suitcases, started for the gate in a formless mob. Then Murphy had an inspiration. "Wait!" he yelled. "We'll go back in order. Form in lines of six each." Standing at the foot of the gangway, Murphy shook hands with every man as he went aboard...
...from the upstairs window. I hate dancing, Vag thought and thought over and over. Do girls really like it? Oh, here she was she followed you. What's the matter, Vag dear! Why do you run away from me! Do you want me to go home I will I'll go home we're neither of us having a good time, darling. Yes, said Vag aloud, then yes yes yes yes to himself I want to go home and then I want to go away farther and farther. I don't want to be drunk or indifferent or dance...