Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...summer his grandfather, a retired whaling captain who lived outside New Bedford, took him sailing in his catboat, taught him how to tie sailor's knots and to eat salt pork (anyone planning to follow the sea for a living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
...last week, with the salty comments from unfriendly quarterdecks rumbling in his ears, Captain Brown swung back onto the only course every Navy skipper is expected to follow. "In my opinion," Brown said, "I, and I alone, bear sole responsibility for the grounding of the Missouri. As captain of the ship it was my duty to keep her safe and secure. I didn't do it ... Despite all the numerous shortcomings of others ... I could have, and should have, kept the ship in deep water...
...recent movies he liked best, they were Henry V., Hamlet and Fallen Idol; when Cadogan thought about it, he realized that all three of them were British. As for T. S. Eliot's Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30), Cadogan found some of it a bit difficult to follow. "But of course," he added, "I may be getting hard of hearing...
...morning he was to run, Brownie quivered with excitement and the early chill while trainers, judges and a booted-and-muffled crowd of 200 spectators mounted horses to follow the show. Brownie was released with another pointer named Spunky Pete, and the two raced madly out across the fields with the big cavalcade clumping cautiously along behind them...
...Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...