Word: seamen
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...charms are antique: here the ruins of a once-mighty fort, there the shards of porcelain, reputedly from Zheng He's ships, that I find hidden in a dilapidated museum. As recently as the 1950s, seagoing freighters thronged to East Africa's largest port, off-loading boozy Western seamen and picking up African treasures. Today, as I stroll along the harbor, stevedores off-load shipments slowly - a languor born of chronic underemployment. Still, the Chinese come. "We Chinese can find business opportunities everywhere," grins Cen Haokun, one of three affable brothers who own six restaurants and a shark...
...diving officer behind me actually drove the sub as it sailed under the Atlantic Ocean, telling me every move to make with the "stick," their nickname for the wheel. Steering a nuclear-powered submarine sounds impressive, but on the boat the job usually goes to the crew's junior seamen, some no older than...
...diving officer behind me actually drove the sub as it sailed under the Atlantic Ocean, telling me every move to make with the "stick," their nickname for the wheel. Steering a nuclear-powered submarine sounds impressive, but on the boat the job usually goes to the crew's junior seamen, some no older than...
...looked like they had collectively won the Tour de France with the Artist currently known as Prince as their major sponsor. I read once that the British navy in the 18th century used to send bands of men onshore - "press gangs," they called them - looking to force able-bodied seamen to join their ranks. I didn't see any of these corporate squads forcibly recruiting anybody into anything, but if, say, Direct TV launches its own navy in the next few weeks, between you and me, you'll know where the recruits came from...
...still imperious British came back to America and captured Washington in 1814, burning the Capitol and the White House before leisurely returning to their ships in Annapolis. The worst insult may have come from British Rear Admiral George Cockburn, one of the commanders of the 150 seamen who skillfully torched the city, as the Federal Government's bureaucrats, including President James Madison and his Cabinet, ran like rabbits for the open country in Maryland and Virginia. Before ordering his men to set the building on fire, Admiral Cockburn told them to choose souvenirs from among the trivial things...