Word: sailormen
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Chauffeur Teodoro Pérez was the complainant. During last month's inauguration of President Tomás Berreta, he picked up three U.S. bluejackets from the good-will U.S. naval squadron led by the cruiser Fresno. The sailormen slugged him and robbed...
...middle of the 19th Century, Peruvian pirates swept down on Easter and carried off many of its inhabitants to slavery. Smallpox killed hundreds of others. When the Chilean Navy moved in (in 1888), its sailormen found no more than 200 or 300 Polynesians, living among Easter's great stone images. For years, Easter Island's only visitors were chance whalers, occasional foreign warships, and archeologists trying to solve the mystery of the giant statues. One & all, the visitors liked the island's moderate climate and superb trade winds, but for vacations or all year preferred the lusher...
...From "Songs of American Sailormen" Cursing the Government, Johnny left her. He left her moored to West Street piers in Manhattan, to the Embarcadero in San Francisco, to the docks of Boston, Seattle and New Orleans. Last week Johnny was on the biggest maritime strike in U.S. history-a strike, moreover, in theory as well as fact against the Government...
Susie's most persistent fans are British seamen, who are seldom content with a standby like Danny Boy, but who bedevil her with requests for obscure English songs. Usually she knows them. The sailormen often ask for, and get, what Susie calls "The one about the girl who feeds her lover poisoned eels...
...Navy had already tried 207 other Negro sailormen and found them guilty of disobeying orders on the same rebellious occasion. Unlike the 50, the 207 had not persisted in their refusal to load explosives. Punishments (also unannounced) were undoubtedly lighter...