Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Victor of Prussia, 64, boorish third ("Sailor Boy") son of Kaiser Wilhelm II,† noted in his youth for love affairs, bad manners, and the fact that he spent much of World War I as a naval officer luxuriating in Bruges, Belgium; of a heart ailment; in Montreux, Switzerland...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
Along the silt-yellow Rio Magdalena the talk was of hard times. "There's not enough water, not even for alligators if there were any," said one dark-skinned boga de agua dulce (freshwater sailor) squatting idly on a pier. "They hunted alligators to death," remarked another, "and now the ghosts are cursing this river...
Jake was an apt, ambitious and obedient young man who never shirked a chore, even to kidnaping a Russian sailor...
...become a hero. But instead of crying out at the thieves who had besmirched Honest Huey's memory, he said: "Smith is only one man. Jesus Christ picked twelve, and one of 'em was a son-of-a-gun." Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...