Word: deckhand
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...slum in the Adriatic port of Ancona, life had been hard for Palmira Carloni. After nearly half a century of never-ending work, she still managed to avoid starvation only by selling salted lupine seeds along Ancona's waterfront. Two of the ten children she had borne her deckhand husband died for want of food. But Palmira was strong because she had faith...
That summer the Scituate Yacht Club hired Grover as swimming instructor and "deckhand." In the course of turning out the clubhouse lights one night, Charlie ignored a peremptory request by a solitary individual he had never seen before that the lights be left on. The individual turned out to be an ex-commodore and person of some standing in the club...