Word: swabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 230 lbs.) frame never seemed to stop swelling with rage when he uncoiled from behind a desk to bawl out some wilting subordinate. But last week the spit-and-polish admiral (Annapolis '24) was as subdued as a brand new swab jockey hauled up before his first Captain's Mast. Erdmann had barely settled down in his Marin County, Calif. home to enjoy his retirement from the Navy when a federal grand jury indicted him for smuggling. The charge: Erdmann, when relieved as Commander of Naval Forces in the Marianas, had packed home...