Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violent, muffled rattle split the still morning air over the English Channel. "That ain't no gun-testing," said Skipper Gregson, gripping the wheel of the tiny patrol boat and staring into the sky. Seaman Snowy, 16, whose eyes and ears were sharp, stood at the rail, cried suddenly: "There's a plane out there! Two planes." "Go on!" mocked Jimmy, engineer and third man of the Breadwinner's crew. "I can hear [a Messerschmitt]," Snowy shouted. "What was the other [plane]?" Gregson asked. "They both gone now," said the boy sadly. But, half an hour later...
Decadence & Death. English Author Malcolm Lowry, who is 38, spent the better part of the past ten years writing Under the Volcano, while roaming over half the face of the globe as tourist and merchant seaman. The setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just...
...Foil; Seaman defeated Vera (H) 5-2; Van Roosen (H) defeated Seaman 5-4; Weil defeated Hubbard (H) 5-2, Edelman (H) 5-1, and Barrieelli (H) 5-1; Abbate defeated Raney (H) 5-3, and Hubbard (H) 5-1; Barrieelli (H) defeated Abbate 5-3, and Seaman...
epee: Johnson (H) defeated Seman 3-1; Weil and Abbate defeated Johnson (H) 3-1; Duke (H) defeated Weil 3-0; Abbate and Seaman defeated Duke (H) 3-0; Masterson (H) defeated Weil and Abbate 3-0; Seaman defeated Masterson...
Back in the century when the King James Bible was hot off the press, and England and Holland fought for New Amsterdam, Seaman Edward Coxere spun the hair-raising story of his life in simple-seaman's language, and sewed the quires shipshape in vellum. Rats alone chewed over the MS. until 1940, when it was unearthed by a London book dealer...