Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailor was drunk. He held a half-empty bottle of whiskey as he swooped into a silk and fur shop. The half-dozen Chinese clerks inside looked apprehensively at each other...
Drunk as he was, the sailor knew what he wanted. "Where's your silk scarves?" A Chinese clerk got some out. The sailor pawed through them and took another drink. Then he wobbled across the room to the fur counter, with clumsy furtiveness stuffed a piece of fur under his heavy pea jacket and moved back to the silk...
...sailor stuck his hand in his pocket, pointing the bulge at another clerk. "Come over here," he snarled. "You don't think I'll shoot...
...clerk tried to smile. Pushing the bulge to a sharper point, the sailor again ordered: "C'mere." The clerk bolted out the front door...
...give me that bull -," growled the sailor. "Have a drink," and he went back to his bottle...