Word: monthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scarcely a month had gone by since 17-year-old William Buie, fireman third class, was transferred from a harbor-bound oiler to a rolling, seagoing Navy destroyer, and ex-Farm Boy (Mulberry, Fla.) Buie was one seasick bluejacket. One night last week, when his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell, was rocking along 60 miles southwest of San Diego, Buie went topside to watch a movie. He was still pretty green around the gills, so he wobbled aft to smoke a cigarette. On the port quarter, he leaned over the side. As he leaned, the ship rolled-and over, into...
...Dutch are not usable for the moment. The French forces are in Algeria." Furthermore, NATO's 30 reserve divisions, theoretically ready 30 days after the start of hostilities, do not for all practical purposes exist at all. The Dutch and Belgians now draft soldiers for an inadequate twelve-month period and are understrength besides; Britain's materiel stocks on the Continent are far below the levels recommended by NATO...
...black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons in the past month have found cause for hope...
These are isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service dress and carrying a submachine gun, marched the no miles from Dorset to London, eating buns and sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed...
...Enough. Angela turned to the police, who warned him to let her alone. In 1947, a judge gave him a three-month suspended sentence on a charge of being a public nuisance. He was arrested again and carted off to a psychiatric examination, but the doctors could find nothing more than the disorders of love. Francesco went back to following his beloved, crying after her, "Darling wife, sweet love, my soul!" When Angela answered "Imbecile!" he would say worriedly, "Have I offended you? I didn't mean...