Word: sailorful
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Bows at the back of the head and sailor hats would be precious if she were eight. But when she reached ten, it would seem that good taste, intelligence and a dawning restraint would have caused her to "cool...
...Movie. Scientists of the Naval Research Laboratory found the experiment no bore, gathered enough information to keep them busy evaluating for several months. Closed-circuit TV zeroed in on the recruits has already given, them many of the answers they want. At first the shelter seemed a weary sailor's paradise, and the men caught up on all the sack time lost at boot camp, sleeping in shifts. When fatigue gave way to restlessness, they turned to poker (played for matchsticks, since the Navy officially bans gambling). But this palled after a week, conversation was exhausted-and morale sagged...
After three years, says Williams, "I guess I willed myself into a nervous breakdown." Recuperating with his grandparents in Memphis that summer, he wrote his first play: Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, about two sailors who pick up a couple of girls. He had never seen a sailor. In the next few years, returning to St. Louis, he churned out scripts about miners (unseen), munitions makers (unseen), prison convicts roasted alive (unseen) and a flophouse (visited). A quasi-bohemian theater group called the Mummers staged them...
These attitudes are for the most part expressed visually. A solemn procession of little kids, including Seryozha, watch an older friend unconsciously immitate the mannerisms of his sailor uncle, whose bearing, imagined adventures and magnificent tatoos they all worship. The camera follows the delinquent escapades of Seryozha and his friends with the eye of a fellow child. Fast action and disaster, hasty exits and final parental retribution. Seryozha's loneliness during the first few weeks of his mother's marriage isolates him from the rest of the children: he is shown on the fringe of groups, always a little absent...
Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, the son of a sailor, was a giant of a man (6 ft. 3 in., 275 Ibs.) who ruled the House by brute genius, and raised the speakership to a peak of authority. By refusing to entertain "dilatory motions" (i.e., anything he disliked), Republican Reed won arbitrary power over the calendar of legislation. By counting silent members as present, he frustrated the Democratic minority's parliamentary ploy of preventing a quorum by refusing to vote. The "Reed Rules," many of which are still in use, ended House filibusters for all time. Reed was known...