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Word: roncolato (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...showing that female sailors are physically weaker than males and leave ships at more than twice the rate men do, often because they're pregnant. But officers who have commanded ships with women on board have generally brushed aside such concerns. Writing in the Navy journal Proceedings, Commander Gerard Roncolato, former skipper of the destroyer U.S.S. The Sullivans, declared that there is no job on board a ship today that cannot be done by a woman because of a lack of strength or stamina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aye, Aye, Ma'am | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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