Word: tankerman
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...wildly conflicting pronouncements on the decline of the American middle class, the truth for most American families lies in the details of their lives. And the details paint a discouraging picture of the generational fortunes of the Forrester family since Bob, now 60, went to work as a tankerman in the Inland Boatmen's Union in Los Angeles harbor...
...Former Tankerman Demarest went down to sea in ships along an unusual route. Born 32 years ago on Long Island, he was sent to England for his education by a grandfather who was an ardent Anglophile. The processing began at a Spartan boarding school in Berkshire, where he was drilled with a wooden rifle at sunup by a World War I sergeant major, introduced to Latin at eight and Greek at nine...
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