Word: yardarm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skies, four days' sail from the Virgin Islands. Converted into a training ship, the brig was on her way home from what had begun ten weeks earlier as a routine cruise. But a terror unique in the U.S. Navy's history had mocked routine. From the main yardarm dangled three lifeless, hooded figures. They had been hanged by order of the ship's captain. Reason: alleged conspiracy to mutiny...
...become "a lawless wanderer upon the deep." He clapped Spencer, Cromwell and Small in irons. But, he felt, the crew's every move showed "sullenness" and "portentous" looks, and four more "mutineers" were put in irons. Spencer and his two cronies were executed without trial, hanged from the yardarm, and ceremoniously buried...
...able Arthur Deakin, 62, the union's general secretary, marched into the hall, packed with 800 representatives of the union's truck drivers and milkmen, trawlermen and stable lads, home helps and gravediggers, someone reminded him that Nelson's flagship Victory, with its hangman's yardarm, was not far away. Deakin smiled grimly. "We don't need the yardarm," said...
...merely curious pointed and peered at her exposed underbody. At week's end the Navy gave up, announced dejectedly that they would try again at the next spring tide in February. Every night, for all to see, two red lights hung at the Missouri's yardarm. They indicated that the ship was aground, as humiliating for a ship's captain as "kick me" chalked on the seat of a small boy's pants...