Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpreparedness for war, its most satisfactory aspect was, v the U.S. ability to act in the face of disaster. Today Pearl Harbor is one of the most strongly defended fortresses on earth. The Arizona still sits on the bottom near Ford Island, a mute monument which many a sailor apostrophizes thus: "You bastards, you haven't paid enough for that yet." The ugly, rusty keels of the Oklahoma and the old Utah are still turned up to the bright Hawaiian sun, just as they rolled bottom-side up a year...
...Army & Navy well know the importance of news-from-home to the soldier and sailor and marine away-from-home. From every direction came evidence that the American away from home is the most homesick man in the world...
Executive Secretary John J. Kearney of the Bartenders and Waiters Union testified that the night club patron blamed indirectly for the holocaust was a sailor who unscrewed a light bulb to darkon a corner so he could "mug" his girl friend...
...subsea) and large quantities of high water (the North Atlantic) while telling the simple story of the Sybil Gray, a munitions-laden laggard from a United Nations convoy. It comes through the mutual animosities of Chief Petty Officer Pat O'Brien and disgraced, re-enlisted Sailor George Murphy so predictably that by the picture's end they are brothers-in-law (with the help of Nurse Jane Wyatt). It also comes through at the seams, so abundantly that it is sometimes hard to see the ballast for the bilge...
...doctor was aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed...