Word: shoal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoal Waters. In Mobile. Ala., Seaman John W. Jones sued the United Fruit Co. for $75,200 damages after he wrenched his back fleeing from a snake in his bunk, slipped on a grease smear and fell off an engine-room ladder...
...lived to see even his fame turn to the ashes of parody: "My success has encouraged such a shoal of ill-spawned monsters to crawl into public notice, under the title of Scots Poets, that the very term, Scots Poetry, borders on the burlesque." When his excise pay "was cut, Burns went to bed with a fever, and on July 12, 1796, begged ?10 of a cousin: "A rascal of a Haberdasher to whom I owe a considerable bill . . . has commenced a process against me . . . O, James! . . . Save me from the horrors of a jail!" Within a fortnight, and before...
...under Mars," said one of his crew the day Mars got the D.S.O. at Buckingham Palace, "you know you're all right." After the war Mars himself was less confident. In peacetime, he soon found, shoal waters and depth charges are not the only perils that beset a submariner. There was, for instance, the problem of how to make a home for his wife and two children on navy pay ($39 weekly...
...always paid 50?," grumped the town treasurer. Young Dr. Luce, the son of a Yankee sea captain who knew shoal waters when he saw them, swallowed hard and adjusted his rate...
...shift to automatic transmissions, automen have added a shoal of new words to the language. Most of them, as might be expected, end in "matic" (e.g., Hydra-Matic, Gyro-Matic, Ultramatic). Last week the Ford Motor Co. announced a new automatic transmission of its own, developed with Borg-Warner Corp. for the 1951 Mercurys. Its name: "Merc-O-Matic." In a few months the company will bring out a new transmission, optional on all 1951 Fords. The name, to nobody's great surprise: "Ford-O-Matic...