With his honeyed drawl, elfin features and sweet, sidelong grin, Mr. Parsons's Elwood is a man who has managed to pickle the literal-mindedness of a young boy in the booze he consumes in stevedore-worthy quantities, without imbibing a single drop of bitters.
His mother, who is retired, was a data processor at Ceres Terminals, a stevedoring company in Chicago, and his father was a heavy machinery operator for Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers in Chicago.
Remarks like that one, from old and young, from men calloused from lifetimes spent stevedoring to unemployed youngsters playing at open-air pool tables, reflect a perception of something frequently debated in war colleges in the United States.
In the BDM colony, loud metal sounds typically occur during the logistic operations that take place close to disturbed areas several times a year (e.g. cranes and trucks used during stevedoring for Island supply).
In April, South African stevedores refused to unload a shipment of seventy-seven tons of rockets, mortars, and other munitions from China destined for Zimbabwe — a cargo reminiscent of the deliveries to Rwanda before the genocide of 1994.
At once, I saw the whole panorama of U.K.'s life as a gaucho in Patagonia, a stevedore in Marseilles, a safari leader in Kenya, a light-heavyweight prizefighter in Chicago, and the abbot of a Coptic monastery in Algeria.
"If the trucks come in, we will be here in the stevedore business.
In World War II, led an infantry platoon in Italy and France; wounded out of action and awarded a purple heart; subsequently assigned to stevedore battalion and eventually stationed 12 miles from Hiroshima.
American Stevedoring pitched in, emptying a warehouse to create dressing rooms and lending personnel; their employees gave the actors a tutorial on how to convincingly sling the lightweight burlap sacks they use as props.
The second half features a yacht stagehand-stevedores pull in, as well as a pier over a beach.
