Word: sailorful
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...young sailor home from two years of active service sat listening in the gallery. All day long, like steam from a kettle, coils of debate had risen endlessly from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House was now preparing to vote on the same anti-poll tax bill that had been filibustered to death by a group of Southern Senators at the close of the 77th Congress (TIME...
Once again all the old weary arguments, the passionate pros and cantankerous cons, were being voiced. The young sailor squirmed and fidgeted...
...such notes of sanity were lost in the echoing cacophony of prejudice. The young sailor sitting near the clock suddenly had enough. He leaped to the railing around the gallery, clung precariously to one of the steel uprights that support the roof and yelled: "Mr. Speaker, I demand the right to be heard...
Several Congressmen sitting just below the sailor scuttled for safety, apparently afraid he was going to jump. The voice of the sailor cut across the hum: "I am a man from the service. Do I have the floor?" Then, before he was pulled from his perch, he shouted: "I speak for the thousands who cannot be here. Why does a man have to pay tribute for the right to vote? Why should a man be taxed to vote when he can fight without paying...
...commander of marines] went to the table, looked at a piece of paper a sailor had left there, read it, tore it up and asked in a grim voice...