Word: yardarm
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...merely curious pointed and peered at her exposed underbody. At week's end the Navy gave up, announced dejectedly that they would try again at the next spring tide in February. Every night, for all to see, two red lights hung at the Missouri's yardarm. They indicated that the ship was aground, as humiliating for a ship's captain as "kick me" chalked on the seat of a small boy's pants...