Word: skippering
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...Skipper of Midway was no rear admiral but a Navy commander. But its importance to the U.S. was far out of proportion to the three stripes on its commander's shoulder boards. From Midway's dredged-out central lagoon (landing place for Pan Am Clippers) the largest Navy seaplane tenders can mother a fleet of patrol bombers, ranging as far north as Alaska's Aleutian chain, south to Pago Pago, west to the edges of Japan itself...
...National Maritime Union, convention-anchored at Cleveland, Skipper Joe Curran hollered from the bridge in rough and hearty iron-man style. His shout shivered the political timbers of some of his delegates. There was some question about whether he was really navigating-or whether he was acting under sealed orders. In any case, war between Germany and Russia called for a new compass course from Skipper Curran. Thereupon he flung N.M.U.'s helm hard astarboard, neatly following the latest zig in the Communist Party zigzag...
...show Skipper Curran put on, the highlights were also rosy...
Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...
Next morning the Atlantic broke its silence: it tossed a girl's body against the oars of a Bailey Island fisherman. By nightfall six other women had been found floating in the bay, among them, Bessie Strople and Elizabeth Howard. Lashed to a small keg, Skipper Johnson was found, near him charred pieces...