Word: sailorful
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Homer succeeded Grace to the top jobs-first as president in 1945, then as chief executive in 1957. Precise and analytical, he surprised many in the industry by proving to be a forceful chief. Sensing that shipbuilding was on the wane, the old sailor cut back Bethlehem's stake in ships, and late last year initiated a threeyear, $750 million improvement program concentrating in other areas. Rising behind the Indiana dunes near Chicago is a $275 million finishing plant that will give Bethlehem, which has long been the strongest supplier in the East, a major hold in the Midwest...
...first officer on a clipper ship out of San Francisco. In Honolulu on shore leave in 1865, he fell off a horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success, became a key first step in the Dillingham family's development...
...tumult, the body of Edith Piaf, along with her cherished good luck charms, a stuffed rabbit, squirrel and lion, was lowered into its grave. It was 6 p.m. before the last of the mourners departed, leaving behind on her grave notes, poems, pictures of her favorite saint (Theresa), a sailor's beret and a French Foreign Legionnaire's epaulet...
...Grad Sailor. The path back to Yale started at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the Brewsters and their five children spend their summer sailing. A neighbor and fellow sailor at Vineyard Haven was Whitney Griswold. Becoming good friends, the Old Grad and the President ribbed each other unmercifully. "What are you doing to my alma mater?" Brewster would roar, joshing Griswold about student riots at New Haven, losing football teams or his presidential speeches. When the rumor spread that Brewster was under consideration as next dean of the Harvard Law School, Griswold in 1960 offered Brewster Yale...
...play is set in a Dublin lodging house inhabited by two whores, two homosexuals, a caretaker, and an old Englishman named Monsewer who came to fight for Ireland's independence 45 years ago and has never given up the cause. A Russian sailor, two officers of the Irish Republican Army, a few Catholic social workers and a Negro pizefighter named Princess Grace also drift across the stage...