Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just what the skipper ordered, although the skipper wasn't aboard. Greying Henry C. Taylor, crack sailor and textile merchant, sat in his parlor at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. He had Baruna, a trim, 71-foot yawl, built for him ten years ago. Twice he had entered the Bermuda race, finished first both times. This time, his three sons, all Navy veterans of World War II, were taking over for him. He had taught them the ABCs of sailing almost before they were out of diapers...
Literary Material. It was on Más-a-Tierra (Landward), largest (58 square miles) of the Juan Fernández Islands, that a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was put ashore in 1704 after a row with his captain. There he lived in rugged solitude for four years. When he got back to England, Selkirk published a personal journal of his adventures, and from his account Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
...SAILOR JIM: "Do they know that I have to scrub the deck at 4 in the morning...
...SAILOR: "Then that is not important...
...SAILOR: "Very well. I shan...