Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAILOR, SENSE OF HUMOUR & OTHER STORIES (369 pp.)-V. S. Pritchett-Knopf...
...Margaret, hiking her skirt, declares that Jill has brought a flea into her life. It seems that the flea-not an "ordinary" London one but "some great black foreign brute"-sprang from Jill onto Margaret. But why was Jill harboring the flea in the first place? Because a young sailor had given it to her-not intentionally, of course, but because he and Jill went to bed together, and (to put it briefly) "fleas hop." By the end of the story, poor Jill is lying prone on the barroom floor, overcome by shame, double gins, and the loss...
...Sailor & the Cop. At 18, Los Angeles-born Daws Trotman, as he later recounted, "gambled and was very deep in the world." He was courting a girl named Lila, as religious as she was pretty, and she took him with her to some church meetings. At the second meeting Dawson was the only one there who had memorized six Bible verses that had been assigned at the first meeting. The same thing happened at the third meeting. The following week he was "taken of the Lord," converted to evangelistic Christianity, and welcomed to membership in the interdenominational Church...
Memorizing the Bible was the key to conversion, as Trotman saw it, so he handed out scores of Scriptures to youth groups he organized. One day in 1934 a mother asked him to look up her son, a sailor on a ship off Long Beach. Sitting in his old car by the waterfront, Trotman quoted the Bible to the boy until a policeman grew suspicious. A few minutes later, Trotman had talked the cop into joining him and the sailor in a session of prayer. The sailor said: "I'd give my right arm if I could do what...
...beginning of a movement that Trotman called the Navigators, for its nautical origins. For that sailor converted a friend with the technique he had learned from Dawson Trotman, and that convert in turn convinced another. Soon Navigators were spread across the seven seas. At one point during the war there were Navigators in more than 1,000 U.S. Navy ships and stations...