The film is based on the mutiny of Russian sailors against their tyrannical superiors aboard the battleship Potemkin during the Revolution of 1905.
The annual event pits Olympic and professional sailors against keen amateurs.
The process pitted desperate sailors against equally desperate officers in as all-or-nothing a system of labor relations as can be imagined.
Although Sailor will, against all odds, be identified, that identification comes to seem almost irrelevant.
She married a sailor, John Bonny, against her father's wishes, and sailed off with him into the figurative sunset.
Consider "University Club," a Saturday Evening Post cover in which a lanky sailor, leaning against the base of a looming gray stone facade, chats up a perky young woman in a tight red dress.
Only a few moments stick: the angle of the woman's bent leg, hitched up high; the way the man sometimes drags her like a sailor pulling against a full sail.
In March 1921, in the so-called Kronshtadt Rebellion, Kronshtadt sailors mutinied against the Soviet government.
He left victorious: two ships destroyed, three frigates aground, 400 Yankee sailors dead against two of his own.
The Athenian soldiers and sailors clamoured against departure, and Nicias, in obedience to the soothsayers, resolved to remain thrice nine days.
