Word: navymen
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...Royal Navymen, the 20-year-old Nelson and Rodney were something special. They were unlike all other battleships; all their big guns were massed on long, sweeping bows, and could not be trained astern. Navymen liked to believe that they were designed on the proud premise that a British battleship would never turn tail. Now that they were obsolete, economy dictated the ships' retirement. The five veterans, said Viscount Hall, "would be of very little value in any future...
Seldom in history had an invading force been better behaved or more peacefully inclined. The 10,000 U.S. Navymen who swarmed into London last week from the battleships Wisconsin and New Jersey, the carriers Kearsarge and Randolph, were in holiday mood. The 2,140 downy-cheeked midshipmen were agog with excitement over the sights they had seen on Uncle Sam's "Show the Flag" junket to northwestern Europe...
...Guardsmen fought a pitched battle in Piccadilly early today," screamed the Daily Mail. The story could not have been less true. The sailors, explained Scotland Yard later, had only stood by amiably while London's bobbies rounded up an agile civilian drunk. The only riot remotely concerning the Navymen themselves occurred in Tottenham Court Road when authorities forgot to tell enlisted men about a dance scheduled at the Paramount Dance Hall. Only 50 sailors showed up. A shore patrol officer stopped by to explain this statistical affront to 450 disappointed London girls. The ladies, with screams and threats, drove...
Last week Congressmen heard that Navy Secretary Forrestal was willing to give in even on this question, dear as it was to Navymen's hearts. Thus encouraged, G.O.P. steersmen were getting ready to put merger up to the 80th Congress: it would provide some of the budget economies they had promised...
...name also applied by U.S. Navymen to a Japanese-piloted rocket bomb used in Kamikaze attacks on Okinawa...