wardrooms

For a purportedly action-packed series, there’s a high preponderance of conversation in wardrooms and boardrooms and restaurants and the like.

Book review: Storm from the Shadows by David Weber ewillett 2009

He sent her on improbable errands to places that were unfeasibly distant in order to ensure that physical tiredness would be a prophylactic against the inevitable insomnia of the young and miserable, and he made a point of telling her the funniest stories that he could remember from his years of listening to garrulous men in the kapheneion and in the wardrooms of ships.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Yet as much as Louis hated remarks that he was a “German princeling” or a “court favorite,” hard as he tried to adapt himself to the hearty “band of brothers” atmosphere of Victorian navy wardrooms, he was a princeling, born a German, and there was favoritism.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

Visiting in the wardrooms of the armored cruisers, Hirst found most officers expecting a battle and fatalistic about their prospects.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

And that was, the enlisted men and women, you know, their areas where they eat, their mess halls, they aren't as plush as the officers 'wardrooms.

CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2002 2002

There was a story floated about, spoken only in submarine wardrooms far at sea and well below the surface, that somehow the U.S.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

As the year stretched out toward its end, bringing closer the moment when nothing more could be heard from home thereafter, more and more people began to vote in the wardrooms to hear whatever was coming from there.

And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

The vacuum of space sucked at storage bays, shops and wardrooms; dozens of bodies floated through the rupture.

The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven

Aud-viz transmissions from passageways, wardrooms, and work and recreation areas slipped across the screens in rapid succession.

The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven

Herbert D. Riley warned, if the Navy were forced to integrate its officers 'wardrooms, staterooms, and clubs.

Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor