Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Empire had no color line, and streams of people moved through it for centuries in every direction. Africans, including those with Negro ancestry, fought in the legions, traveled as merchants or seamen. Everywhere they went they left their immortal genes; so few white Americans can claim to have none of them, and none can prove...
Producer Douglas set aside yet another $1,000,000 to light the publicity bonfires and warn the populace that "The Vikings Are Coming!" Reviewers all over the U.S. have been showered with plastic viking ships and savage-looking letter openers in the form of a viking dagger. Seven Norwegian seamen, lured by the hope of adding another Leif to the nautical history of the Northmen, are sailing across the Atlantic in one of the ships used in the film, and the TV cameras will be waiting for them at the docks. The opening of the picture was described by Douglas...
...Seamen who sail under the "Red Duster" of the British merchant marine have borne that ensign proudly over all the world's oceans. But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue. A boatload of deck apes from the S.S. United States, led by deadeye "Tex" Rozelle, challenged the visitors to a round of darts, and whipped the limeys at their own sport, five games to four. Britannia's seapower had not known such disgrace...
...fleet dropped from 146,000 to 100,000, yet Admiralty officials increased nearly 80% from 2,000 to 3,569. So absolute is the working of his law, says Parkinson, that "the officials would have multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all." A U.S. example of Parkinson's Law was cited not long ago by the Wall Street Journal, which pointed out that while U.S. foreign aid has been almost halved between 1953 and 1957, the staff administering the program has nearly doubled...
...Hours. The steel-hulled Pamir set sail from Hamburg last June for Falmouth, England, and Buenos Aires, with a complement of 53 cadets and 33 veteran seamen aboard. Last week, homeward bound from B.A., she was struck by the full (127-knot) force of Carrie, which the skipper had not expected to hit for a full two hours. Even as Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper...