Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hated them. I want to fight them now. I ask permission to continue in the war to the end-if God permits-with weapons in my hands, at the most dangerous and exposed position at the front that is possible, in the most humble grade, even as a plain sailor...
...Leave, a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...
...current problems is the married WAVES. Many would like to rejoin soldier and sailor husbands who have come back from overseas. It is a problem which is giving Miss Mac much concern. As she once said, "Women can be efficient and professional and still be women...
Having a Hell of a Time. In a Scollay Square grill in Boston, where a sailor can always find a dame, the frilly young redhead paused in her gadding about. She looked only 17, but she said she had an eight-year-old son. Her husband is overseas and she wants him back home more than anything in the world...
Married. Stephanie Pell, 20, Paris-born daughter of U.S. diplomat Robert Thompson Pell (now in Paris as SHAEF assistant political officer); and one Roger Déchame, 23, a sailor in the French Navy, whom she met while christening the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, named for the historic Revolutionary fort on the Pell's upstate New York estate; in Manhattan's French Huguenot Church of Saint-Esprit...