Word: sailorful
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...crowd collected to stare, remained to mutter. A neighboring department store broke out a huge U. S. flag. Several young men climbed the fire escape to the floor above the German Consulate. A U. S. sailor wriggled down to the staff, slashed at the flag with a knife. Another sailor grabbed a fold, pulled. Nazi clerks leaned out to haul the flag to safety. The boys held on; the flag ripped across the swastika. The boys climbed down. Two riot calls brought carloads of police. The crowd cheered. The sailors were pinched. The building canceled the consulate's lease...
Sirs: The American sailor is without a doubt the best diplomat the United States could dispatch to a foreign land. With his knack for mixing with people, the gob has numerous advantages over the silk-hat representative of the State Department...
...sincere wish that you help smash the illusion that the sailor's sphere of action embraces only swabbing of decks and hoisting mugs ol beer...
...bright & early next day, the Ambassador talked a sailor's language to the press. Of course the U. S. would aid Britain to the maximum "over and above our own defense requirements." Let no European fall for the story that the U. S. had sold Britain scrap iron in the 50 destroyers; said he flatly: there are "a lot of good fights left in them." Could France count on effective aid from the U. S.? "Yes, surely . . . especially the children, sick and aged. What has been done until now is almost nothing ... in relation to what the United States...
...know something, he says so. His book describes in great detail the immensely ramified activities of the "underground" Communist movement. It describes how strikes in Europe were fomented, and sometimes broken by the fomenter when they conflicted with Soviet policy. It describes the methods whereby a single experienced Communist sailor can disrupt a whole ship by sabotage. It describes how the 1923 Communist uprising in Germany (in which Valtin led a detachment) was organized, then called off by Moscow after fighting began...