Word: sailorful
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...sailor on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson was swept overboard and drowned in the Pacific...
...Navy said, in the best position to direct this. The board did not cite a motive, and one of its members said it had "no hard evidence" to confirm reports that Hartwig may have been a homosexual who was distraught over the ending of a friendship with another sailor...
...seem to watch enough beach volleyball. Players have become sex symbols who are regularly asked to autograph arms, legs and other parts of bikinied anatomies. "It's just outrageous how many girls go to these things," says Hanseth. "For some of the younger guys, it's like a sailor going into port." Male fans around the U.S. may soon have the chance to swoon over sweaty women. Thanks to the success of the A.V.P., some members of the fledgling Women's Beach Volleyball Association have asked attorney Armato to help them kick up their heels...
...Clancy is too accomplished a craftsman for such overt gambits. The closest parallel comes in the fictional National Security Adviser, Vice Admiral James Cutter, who is reminiscent of John Poindexter. Almost from the moment the admiral is introduced, readers can sense Clancy's scorn: "Cutter was the sort of sailor for whom the sea was a means to an end. More than half of his career had been spent in the Pentagon, and that . . . was no place for a proper sailor...
...feminine, as "doing a Butterfly." Hwang, for one, had no actual complaint against Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. In fact, he had never seen or even heard it. But what he had gleaned of the plot -- about a Japanese girl who kills herself for love of a faithless American sailor -- summed up for him many of the stereotypes Westerners imposed on Orientals. He and his ilk, he believed, were expected to be submissive and fawning, often deceitful, and to show scant regard for human lives, especially their...