Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What [is] your duty towards your neighbor?" The answer: "To do my best to prevent him from doing unto me what I should like to do unto him . . ." And "What is the Nature of Woman?" "Woman is the vessel of the Unholy Spirit, the source of all deformity . . . the enemy of the race...
...state may gain manpower; afterwards, when the helots are put to work, all sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...
...Stop shouting and save your breath, and bail out with your steel helmets,' was the only command suitable for the occasion." At last Shamrock was put out of action, and her load shifted to another ship. Skipper Barrell reported: "This was the last straw, having to leave my vessel which constituted my life savings ... I sat down beneath a gun with my hands over my face and prayed...
...civic conscience of Boston, like a goboon in a Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks...
...Disaster struck the soo-ft. Mississippi towboat Natchez, namesake of the steamboat which raced the Robert E. Lee. The swollen river's current smashed the vessel into a bridge pier near Greenville, Miss. She rolled over and sank in 30 seconds. Thirteen of her crew were saved; another 13 drowned...