Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...
Before many hours had ticked by, H.R. 1776, passed by the Congress, would lie on the President's desk. Toward that landfall Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked because he knew port was near. On dogwatches he conferred lengthily with Harry Hopkins, back now with the most complete report on wartime England yet made by an American; he consulted again & again with the Government's managers of defense, of money, of diplomacy and of the armed forces. While the sailorman President's back was tactfully turned, many...
...when their junk is finished. That will depend upon the sailing qualities of their craft (Chinese Junks weather typhoons, says Black). If the first Chinese Junk ever to be built in Cambridge is not very seaworthy, it will still look pretty on the Charles. If it is a real sailor, maybe they will sail away and startle fishing captains on Brown's Bank...
...symmetry which pleases and is natural to Britons, the Hampshire grounds about which Collingwood wrote are now the home of another Mediterranean commander-Cunningham. To it and the sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...
This left the score at 13 to 6. Much depended on Tom Lacey's 165-pound fight, owing to Navy's strength in the higher weight brackets. Therefore the stands roared as Tom threatened to pin his opponent in the first minute. But the sailor managed to wrench himself free, and Lacey had to content himself with a decision...