Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British Explorer John Ross arrived in Greenland and gave Arctic nomads their first good look at a qallunaaq, a "big eyebrows." In turn, Ross and his seamen gazed on squat Asians wearing bearskin pants. Outsiders called them Eskimos, a derivation from the derogatory Cree Indian word meaning "eaters of raw meat." They simply called themselves Inuit, human beings, a distinction born not of racial arrogance, but of fact. For centuries, the only other walking mammals that most polar natives met used four legs or flippers. The Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs...
...have no real rapport with the 'workers,' in fact I actively detest them en masse. They grumble and strike and behave abominably while their very existence is made possible by sailors and merchant seamen who get a quarter or less than a quarter of what they...
...below, there was disciplined pandemonium. Klaxons howled as British seamen rushed to red alert stations. Machine guns hammered a deafening staccato and Sea Dart and Seawolf missiles aboard British destroyers and frigates locked on to targets and then whooshed away in clouds of smoke and flame. Land-based Rapier antiaircraft missiles joined the fray, as did the nimble Harriers with their Sidewinder missiles (see box). The attacking Argentine pilots could see the missiles zooming toward them and hear the gunfire, but they continued to press their attacks. Said one military attache: "They are bloody good flyers with plenty of courage...
...detective alerted police buddies in Louisiana that Abbott might go there to work as a roustabout. Abbott was spotted the day he arrived. The man with J-A-C-K on his fingers was next seen in bars where Greek seamen stuffed $5 bills into belly dancers' brassieres. As the sightings were relayed back to Staten Island, Majeski sensed that Abbott was tired of running...
DIED. Joseph Curran, 75, booming-voiced founder and longtime president of the National Maritime Union of America; of cancer; in Boca Raton, Fla. Curran took to the sea at 16, got fired for leading his first strike in 1936 and founded the seamen's union the next year. A rough-and-tumble organizer, he ruled the union from 1937 to 1973, building membership to 100,000 after World War II. Fewer than 20,000 active seamen are members today...