Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we should be concerned about is the depths to which military discipline has fallen. The fact of the matter is-Wheeler refused to obey a lawful order given him by a superior. If every soldier, sailor, marine or airman suddenly decided to disobey an order, the U.S. would be in a hell of a fix. The people of this country have a choice: A disciplined, effective military establishment or a rabble consisting of graduated juvenile delinquents, with Elvis Presley haircuts...
...though I love Harold, I cannot dance"-but lost, control in her bread-and-butter blurb: "When I said good night to Stavros, I felt much of my old affection rush into my heart and I said, 'You remarkable man, you are a fantastic Greek and a great sailor, a real...
...week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship and held...
...week's end Sailor Boston had changed his mind, decided that he will try again. "I just need someone to accompany me and a 40-foot boat," he said jauntily. "Then we'd make it for sure. I still have great affection...
...worlds afire. But there are few American writers who can match him for consistent readability and excitement in the field of the short story. His famous The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939) says nearly all that there is to say about urban love; his vengeful Sailor Off the Bremen, after 18 years, is still powerful enough to make a reader wince. This new collection never quite reaches the same heights, but is similarly concerned with love and adventure, is written with clarity and intelligence, and makes a skillful record of the mid-century's "wandering and troubled years...