Even then the ship would have sunk to the bottom if Cook had not been cannyand humble enough to accept a timid midshipman's suggestion that he draw a dung-and-oakum-smeared .
Of late the Allies have equaled or exceeded German purchases of Yugoslav horses, lead, copper and timber, Rumanian wheat, Hungarian beans, flax and oakum.
Edenton council states preference for new police station EDENTON — Edenton Town Council voted 5-1 recently to declare a site in the North Oakum and East Albemarle streets neighborhood as the preferred location for the new Edenton police station.
March 22, 2014 - The Daily Advance