Word: longshoreman
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...longshoreman's definition which still has some validity: "You gets any sort of craft you please, fill her up with liquor and see-gars; you gets your friends on board and have a good time-and that's a yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan...
...billion dollars a year from the world's greatest port. Amid this sensational expose of crooked politicos, corrupt cops, grafting labor leaders and swaggering gangsters in New Jersey and. New York, Anastasia emerged as a star performer despite himself. The ghost of Peter Panto, an insurgent longshoreman whose body was found in a New Jersey lime pit eleven years ago, came to haunt him-and to haunt New York's ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer...
...Jersey City's Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every longshoreman looked more like the Army than the Army...
Last night, after 149 days of violent storm and placid calm, the Miru motored to its berth in the lower Charles River. Brigadier General James S. Simmons, dean of the School of Public Health, welcomed his student to Boston. Another person who shook Davis' hand was an old longshoreman, who left his job last night just to meet the New Zealander. He said he once sailed the South Pacific in mid-winter and knows "the courage it takes...
...Graduate of the week: Oscar L. Thompson, 45, a former longshoreman, hospital orderly, drug clerk, waiter and pantryman, who last week got his M.A. in zoology-the first Negro ever to get a degree from the University of Texas...