Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sailors crisscrossing the northern reaches of the Sea of Japan last week had a name for the risky face-offs: "chicken of the sea." The seamen were aboard a seven-ship U.S. task force that was systematically sweeping a 350-sq.-mi. area of the cold, choppy international waters slightly more than twelve miles from the Soviet Union's Moneron Island and 100 miles northeast of Japan. Hard by the U.S. ships-and sometimes directly under their bows-was a fleet of as many as 40 Soviet vessels, including a missile cruiser, oceanographic ships, trawlers and specialized salvage ships...
...swords or even to wear their traditional topknots. When the samurai rose in revolt, they were suppressed by new armies of conscripts (whom the French were training). With conscription came the French system of compulsory universal education. British shipyards began building Japanese warships, and the Royal Navy trained Japanese seamen as officers...
Hadzi's extensive research for the Copley Place project reveals his thoughtful approach to commissions. "The gates are welcoming, but it has to be about Boston. New England and America. I thought of water and seamen from the harbor and so the different angels of granite and water are like seamen's knots." One of the recurring problems with fountains, he adds, is how to get the maximum water effect with the minimum water...
Smaller parcels arrive in dozens of ways: in the holds of small boats, in the bags of merchant seamen, taped to tourists' flesh, dissolved and then impregnated in clothing or, as New York customs agents discovered early last year, secreted behind a framed reproduction of Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada. "Oh, my gentlemen, oh, my gallant men!" cried Henry, as he watched some 665 seamen and soldiers go down with the ship...