Penny in Savannah, Georgia, recalls that her father, a Navy veteran who served in the South Pacific, would say of someone who was clueless or didn’t know what he was talking about: That person doesn’t know if he’s punched, bored...
cold-iron watch v.— «American Export Lines put “a cold-iron watch” on the $53,000,000 Savannah in Galveston, Texas, last week.…It means putting a cadre crew aboard to keep essential maintenance on a dead ship...
alibaba n.— «Others who interrogate a suspect are sometimes at a loss for questions, asking simply, “Are you alibaba?” the commonly used term for the enemy.» —“War from the ground up: A day with the...
grabling v.— «The men and boys would wade out into the waters of the Savannah, and it was called graplin’. They would run their hands under the rocks and grab an object that was not a rock. Many times I saw a snake being hurled across the...
grabble v.— «Judge Bryant took exception to my notion that you’d have to be an idiot to noodle, considering what you might put your hands on—besides a catfish—underneath slimy rocks and logs in a river or lake. First of all, Judge Bryant...
grapling n.— «The men and boys would wade out into the waters of the Savannah, and it was called graplin’. They would run their hands under the rocks and grab an object that was not a rock. Many times I saw a snake being hurled across the...