Word: shellbacks
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...royal palms on a Florida lagoon, the most obvious thing about today's resorts, aside from the fact that they are proliferating wildly, is that they have changed. They have adjusted to a new time and a new social structure, and this is not necessarily because, as one old shellback snorted, "The '400' has been marked down...
...injured in combat during World War II as he has claimed. Said the Journal: "He was not wounded in action, nor did he suffer a burned and broken foot in an airplane accident on June 22, 1943, as he has said. Instead he was hurt in a hilarious 'shellback' initiation on that date. It occurred when a Navy transport en route to combat areas but without a single dangerous alert during its entire voyage was the scene of the riotous gaiety traditional to crossing the equator...
...white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin "operating table," prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked him vigorously. Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced a shellback...
...Each Shellback must prove his right too sit on that side. Many a genuine Shellback has been refused by his comrades simply because he could not produce his certificate or because the certificate was discredited by the high court of Shellbacks...
...carrier with its huge flight deck the Shellbacks really go to town. As you know, each pretending Shellback and each landlubber must appear before the high court. During your stay at the school, you have been warned that it would be a good thing for you to know what Knibbling Plus were. You were told that you had not reached the proper...