Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British attack began on a low tide at 11:15 o'clock on the morning of June 28. Clinton had landed 2,500 light infantry, grenadiers and seamen on an undefended island northeast of Sullivan's Island and separated from it by a shallow passage known as "the Breach." The original plan called for a wading infantry attack on Sullivan's Island and a simultaneous naval assault. Parker accordingly anchored most of his fleet, including the flagship Bristol and the Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound...
...areas, and to permit Icelandic patrol vessels to halt and inspect British trawlers suspected of violating the agreement. This, in effect, will limit British fishermen to about 30,000 tons of cod annually from the disputed area, compared with 130,000 tons last year. Moreover, some 1,500 British seamen and 7,500 workers ashore may lose their jobs because of the reduced cod catch...
...recalled writing a skit called "Seamen on Broadway" that was rejected from the Hasty Pudding show "by some preppie so they could take some other preppie's skit." Franken started to smile again, but his tone was serious, too serious. "It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia." The smile became so broad it pushed his eyes shut. He couldn't stand it any longer. "Put that...
...Little, Brown. $7.95. Four generations of the Gibson family have photographed dramatic shipwrecks off the Cornish coast of southwest England. They rarely lacked subjects. As Novelist John Fowles argues, this patch of ocean "may well be the most terrible ten square miles in maritime history." Some 2,000 British seamen drowned there one night in 1707; the most celebrated recent victim was the oil freighter Torrey Canyon, which was reduced to catastrophic flotsam in 1967. The Gibsons' pictures (the earliest dating from 1872) all capture the ruined beauty of such ships: "As tragic," Fowles writes, "as the vanished masterpieces...
...still angry about 1972, when the bulk of the 24 million tons of grain and soybeans sold to Russia was shipped in vessels belonging to foreign countries. This time the unions want Administration assurances that 50% of the Russian-bound grain will move in U.S. ships manned by American seamen. More broadly, the unions want the Russians to stop cutting cargo rates as they have been doing recently. U.S. and Soviet officials have been negotiating the issue, but no agreement is in sight...