Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
...Jeannette, Pa., a gun club got ready to pot any Nazi parachutists descending from the skies; the Pennsylvania legislature studied ways to protect industrial plants from air raids; in Brooklyn a war-crazed British sailor danced despairingly on a high window ledge; in Manhattan and Seattle, two men killed themselves because of news; in Kirkland, Wash. a lady letter-writer noted approvingly that a coffee shop had changed "hamburger" on the menu to "liberty steak...
...peasant boy is imprisoned for feeding barley to a hen; a pastor for calling his congregation to account before God for their cowardly acceptance of evil. A professor of law delivers, to the delight of his students, a perverse, seditious lecture on theories of Nazi justice. A sailor is shot for having attended a workers' mass meeting in Manhattan. The local head of the Gestapo cracks under the strain to his decency, warns the city's Jews on the eve of the pogrom of November 1938. In the closing story a mediocre Nazi writer rediscovers his honesty, gets...
Every student who signs up to take the N. R. O. T. C. course in the Freshman year must pass a physical examination and is then expected to finish the entire four years and to become a full-fledged sailor. The Mil Sci student, on the other hand, may drop out at the end either of his first or his second year and remain a quarter or a half of a soldier. Only if he wishes to continue must he pass a physical examination...
Founded in 1737 by a wealthy French sailor, Charity is one of the oldest general hospitals in the U. S. Its troubles began in 1928 when Huey Long kicked out the old director, appointed in his place Surgeon Arthur Vidrine, a promising young man scarcely out of medical school. Then Huey invited Cajuns, Creoles and hillbillies to come on in for quick cures. Result: patients were packed two and three in a bed, many sleeping in the halls, under crumbling plaster...