Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
Watson's first attempts to cope with aggressive adolescence usually misfired. "I am not," he writes sadly, "a wrestler or bouncer . . . and sitting behind a theater desk for about 25 years does not make a man in the pink." He picked up a bit of judo from a sailor and "this worked-sometimes." But once Manager Watson was thrown out of his own theater by one of his customers, and "that is bad for business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work...
...Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees...
...Fifth-Grader Marjorie Frederick, 24, married a sailor, followed him to Florida was replaced by Anna Belle Johnson, 22 (three years' experience...
...football's greatest worry is that draft boards may get unsporting ideas. A dozen players are 4Fs; one is an ex-sailor who survived two sinkings and 14 days in an open boat. Unique among pro footballers is Danny Fortmann of Colgate, a crack guard for the Bears. He is the League's sole Phi Beta Kappa...