Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain's home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow's Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn Scharnhorst sailor disappearing into the sea. In the foreground frenetic Propaganda Minister Goebbels shouts into a microphone: "Germans, we won a great victory. The German underseas fleet has increased in one stroke by 26,000 tons...
...Hancock, a sailor's wife, worked as a nurse's assistant in the Brooklyn State Hospital. One day last July a fellow employe walked into her room in the hospital and discovered Goldman cowering in a corner. Mrs. Hancock, properly indignant, cried wolf, had Goldman arrested for breaking in and trying to rape her. She said she had never seen him before. Goldman retorted that she had indeed seen him before-seven times, and in bed. A jury believed Mrs. Hancock and convicted...
Last week, however, the case started a new circle. Accompanied by her sailor husband, with whom she had been vacationing in their home town of Drury, Mo., Mrs. Hancock stormed into the Brooklyn district attorney's office and demanded a new trial. The district attorney, observing that lie-detector tests have no legal standing in New York, promptly promised...
Made of a special unbreakable glass, the mirror is now being supplied by the hundred to soldiers, sailors and airmen. Example of its usefulness: a sailor adrift off Florida recently got rescued by signaling to a blimp six miles away...
Coast Guardsman Victor Mature's molars were tugged out in Boston-two of the few that never showed in photographs. He confided to the local press the things most desired by every sailor when he reaches port: a soft bed and a dirty joke...