Word: matings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the War, the irrepressible first mate, Kapitänleutnant Helmuth von Mücke, said that the captains of captured British ships always seemed more anxious about whether they would be allowed to save their supply of whiskey than about anything else. It also seemed to Kap.-Lt. von Mücke that the captains' loyalty to the line employing them was greater than to their country. In several instances, he said, they revealed to him the proximity of ships of competing lines...
...picket boat pursued. Boatswain Ingraham turned to Fireman's Mate Harold Lopes. "Fire a few shots across her bow," he ordered. "Aim at the superstructure of the new bridge across the river...
...next year came a scorching day. In the morning, as usual, the dogs scampered and trotted out on the laboratory roof. Toward the end of the afternoon the doctors were summoned and there in the sunshine lay a monstrous dead bulldog, by now twice the weight of her litter mate, a dog fit for baying at enormous moons. In the burning heat her heart and lungs had failed to function for her abnormal, pituitarily overgrown body. Dead though she was, however, she had proved it possible to grow giants in a laboratory...
...wealth; most of the negroes have three or four, while the richest may have as many as 500. On the other hand, divorce is just as easy as marriage; if the woman is dissatisfied, she simply leaves her husband and returns home without ceremony, if she gives her former mate the sum paid...
...week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab...