Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pump. A message from Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes shed no light. Declaring that equitable "apportioning" should be done by filling-station operators so as to exact "as few hardships" as possible, he declared: "You can no more fail in [this task] than can a soldier, a sailor or a worker in a vital defense industry...
Bock is the most fanatical. His fanaticism is military, not political. Leading an army into the Sudetenland, he took his twelve-year-old son, dressed in a sailor suit, along in his car "to impress on his son the beauty and exhilaration that lie in soldiering." German officers call him der Sterber, the dier, because of his great fondness for holding forth on the glories of dying for the Fatherland. It used to be generally said in Berlin that he had Russian blood in his veins. But it was blue blood...
...Table Spread: a moronic, statuesque Irish heiress fancies herself in love with a sailor...
...been a farmer and a sailor.) Sundays, for the first time "at liberty in Nature," he wandered the still unblemished Palisades; or, on Manhattan's South Street, edited the rigging of the world's richest show of sailing vessels. He also read-unsystematically, ignorantly, voluminously-and burned to become a writer...
...side shows, steeplechases, sly games to trap sucker money; the fortunes made and lost by Coney financiers ; the fires that periodically gutted the wooden jungles, during one of which lions ran in the streets with manes on fire; a female exhibitionist who smoked cigars "in a peculiar manner"; a sailor who took his girl through the darkened Old Mill ride and emerged without his pants...