Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier sold the pistol for $75. It was promptly resold for $125 to a sailor, who then sold it to a Navy officer for five quarts of whiskey...
...Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, 35, 20th of his line, who succeeded to the title as a child after his father's death in World War I. A man of many parts (Australian sheep rancher, sailor before the mast, rare-books collector, scientist), he became one of Britain's leading bomb-disposal experts, was blown to pieces (with seven of his staff) by a bomb three years...
...Democrats and Republicans simultaneously discovered that the other party is sending out campaign literature along with servicemen's ballots. At Miami, a sailor reported that his ballot was accompanied by a plea for the re-election of Michigan's Republican Governor Harry F. Kelly. At Guadalcanal, a soldier opened his ballot, found a letter from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly, urging him to vote for Franklin Roosevelt. The two Kellys reacted differently. Governor Kelly denied everything; Mayor Kelly announced that he had sent, not one, but 150,000 letters. "It's legal," he explained...
Ella Shake pined for her sailor husband. He had married her in 1942 in Honolulu. Then he had been sent across the Pacific and she, like other Navy wives, had been shipped back to the States...
...that up to Congress. "General of the Armies" is held sacred to ailing, 84-year-old John J. Pershing, for whom the title was created by special Act. "Marshal" is a title to which George Marshall might personally object. "Admiral of the Fleet" might do for a five-star sailor...