Word: merchant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...against Salazar. Traditionally, the opposition fades away before Election Day. But in 1953, for the first time in a reign which began in 1928, 28 candidates ran against his National Union; all lost. This year, muzzled and muffled, all the opposition melted by Election Day except four lawyers, a merchant and an agronomist in the defiant northern district of Braga. The opposition complained that it was denied equal access to press, radio and the voters' rolls, that its supporters were blocked from voting. Salazar airily dismissed all his opponents as "Communists," and warned of the tense international situation...
...Seamen who sail under the "Red Duster" of the British merchant marine have borne that ensign proudly over all the world's oceans. But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue. A boatload of deck apes from the S.S. United States, led by deadeye "Tex" Rozelle, challenged the visitors to a round of darts, and whipped the limeys at their own sport, five games to four. Britannia's seapower had not known such disgrace...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...
...determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery, cast into a dungeon, poisoned, sentenced to be burned at the stake. She often shocks the rather priggish Theagenes by escaping her fate through cajolery...
TANKER BOOM will push U.S. shipyards to new peacetime record this year despite cut-rate foreign competition, post-Suez shipping slump. Domestic shipyards have 99 merchant vessels grossing 2,316,572 tons under construction or on order, v. 44 ships totaling 729,660 tons at this time last year. Of the total, 82 vessels (2,118,672 tons) are tankers...