Word: troublous
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Today the Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times. As in 1800, Marines are still preoccupied with smart appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain...
...unpleasantly complicated, two-sided issue-war-troubled the delegates in public and in private (see p. 21). It was so troublous that eventually Chambermen handed the whole question over to the Board for further study, forwent passing any specific resolutions on non-domestic issues. On domestic issues the Chamber knew its mind better...
...share a trust in a Divine Providence and in ourselves"; then snipped a ribbon which released a bottle of champagne to christen the world's largest liner (85,000 tons, 1,030 feet overall) with her own name. Into the water slipped the Queen Elizabeth, and into troublous times...
During the past several years, a number of county and State societies have elected "executive secretaries" for long tenure, to steer the societies through troublous times. Before leaving office last December, the Comitia Minora, the board of directors of the New York County Society, appointed as pilot Dr. Benjamin Wallace Hamilton, a veteran factotum...
Closed for the third week was the lovely, troublous port of San Francisco, a vital artery of Pacific Coast commerce. Longshoreman Harry Bridges and water front employers were at outs. Coastal businessmen and inland farmers suffered, drummed denunciations at durable Mr. Bridges...